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Larger R7 II Canon ?

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Robert Krawitz Contributing Member • Posts: 840
Re: Larger R7 II Canon ?

Le Kilt wrote:

Hi, is anyone else finding the R7 a bit on the small side ?

I have big hands and am endlessly annoyed by how narrow phones are (those 7" phones are all length; they're narrow, but I want one that's wide, to give it more area, not useless diagonal), but I don't have a problem with the size of the R7.  It is noticeably smaller than my previous 7DmkII, but I don't especially notice it in operation.  The body feels quite solid.  I'd certainly pay for a stacked sensor and perhaps a deeper buffer and/or CF Express slot (which are now considerably cheaper than UHS-ii SD cards, not to mention much faster), but I can live with the body.

Canon doesn't typically make changes like that between mark numbers; they're evolutionary upgrades.  I can't think of any with bodies; with lenses, the only such I can think of is the EF 50 f/1.8, but that went the other direction (the mkI was a substantial, solid lens with a wide focus ring and depth scale; the mkII was a lightweight body with a very narrow focus ring and no depth scale).

A substantively different body would likely have a different number, but the only such I could see them using is R4.  That would be a bit problematic since it's a lower number (implying higher end) than the R5.  They've historically (well, over the past dozen years, at any rate) used 7 as their top of the line APS-C body.

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