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? for those of you with both the R5 and the R7

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koenkooi Contributing Member • Posts: 920
Re: ? for those of you with both the R5 and the R7

Chris Wolfgram wrote:

Which one do you mostly choose, and for what ???

I've had my R5 for 1 year, and I've loved it. Especially since I got the RF 800 F11. I mostly shoot birds, and mostly small, perched birds.

So I rented the R7, just to see how well it would work for me. The answer was, fantastic ! [...]

I did the same a few months ago and took my R5, M6II and rented R7 with me on vacation. My takeway was that I found that, for me, the R7 was too big to replace my M6II and too small to handle lenses like the RF100-500.

I 3D printed this https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5545843 to help with that and that greatly improved things. Just like the EG-E1 grip improved the RP for me.

So the R7 would the anti-goldilocks camera for me, so it wasn't worth spending money on it. If I didn't have the M6II, I would have bought the R7, since the software allows for things my R5 can't do, like resizable AF zones and record video for more than 30 minutes.

With the M6II still working good enough, the R8 seems to be a better 2nd body for me, I really liked my RP before I sold it to fund the R5.

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