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Sell the R5 and get an R7 and R? Crazy?

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tsinvest
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Re: Sell the R5 and get an R7 and R? Crazy?
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thunder storm wrote:

KEG wrote:

If I owned a beast like R5 I would keep it, I would also just add R7 just for fun.

This. Save up a little to get that R7 without selling the R5.

I've had the R and I've upgraded to the R5. For landscapes the R isn't a bad camera, so if that would have been my only use case I could have sticked with the R, however, going back is.... out of the question.

In my opinion it's also a bad move financially to buy an R5 new and sell it one or two years later. A lot of depreciation. Just keep it. Light metering, auto white balance, dynamic range, IBIS, that very nice ISO 400 performance, it's all very nice.

Last but not least: if the light gets dim when shooting wildlife the R5 gives you the opportunity to switch from R7 to your R5 getting better low light performance by trading some reach. You can't do that with the R without trading a whole lot AF performance too. With the R7 you will get "reach", but the high ISO performance isn't at the same level as the R5.

I second this advise.  It's just what I did and I'm as happy as can be.

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