Upgrade to mirrorless camera from Canon EOS 7D

[joyous]

I'm ready for an upgrade to a mirrorless from Canon EOS 7D. Main use of camera: kids soccer game, light enough to bring on vacation and be able to handle low light/indoor setting (family gathering, restaurant). I also have the EF 70-200mm lens. Is it worth is to buy an adapter to handle this lens or should I sell the the lens? I'm leaning toward the Canon EOS R6 with the RF24-105mm F4-7.1 STM Lens Kit. Also, I'm farsighted, does the viewfinder on the EOS R6 have correction adjustment or do I have to buy a separate adapter? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Or a different camera?

 

[Bob A L]

It probably depends on what you are trying to fix by the change. There are lots of pros and cons. Personally I could not see any upgrade to any mirrorless from a good dslr, it would be a step back. Especially if sports action photos were one of my major needs.

 

[Craig Gillette]

I'm ready for an upgrade to a mirrorless from Canon EOS 7D. Main use of camera: kids soccer game, light enough to bring on vacation and be able to handle low light/indoor setting (family gathering, restaurant). I also have the EF 70-200mm lens. Is it worth is to buy an adapter to handle this lens or should I sell the the lens? I'm leaning toward the Canon EOS R6 with the RF24-105mm F4-7.1 STM Lens Kit. Also, I'm farsighted, does the viewfinder on the EOS R6 have correction adjustment or do I have to buy a separate adapter? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Or a different camera?

The 7D was a fine camera 11-12 years ago. I'd expect you'll find a lot of advances. The 7d series were very speedy cameras, good focus systems, etc. Current focus systems have a lot more features, more focus points covered, etc. They might be better about finding the focus point, following, etc. R6 can hit 12 fps mechanical shutter and 20 fps electronic silent shutter. I don't know how much they differ in size. The high end aps-c dslrs didn't aim at minimizing their sizes, so an ff mirror-less can be smaller.

The R6 is 20 Mp vs 7D 18 Mp. That's pretty close. The 70-200 won't seem as long with the larger sensor vs the crop. I'd probably keep the 70-200. Not sure what the adapter costs or if you have other lenses to use it with. I went Nikon to Sony so adapting questions are different. I think the Canons adapt dslr lenses well? But I don't know what new lenses they have, what they cost, etc., I'd probably look to what the mirror-less 70-200/2.8 costs as well as giving the old lens some test runs on the new body before deciding it's fate.

There is a viewfinder diopter adjustment. I'm kind of at the edge of adjustments on my recent cameras but they work for me. worth a try first. Getting new gear can be done pretty quickly (if it's available) so a few days to check then order?

Sony and Nikon have competitive models but you are likely use to Canon feel and handling so while the others are out there, maybe a swap isn't needed. Especially with having the 70-200/2.8 as opposed to buying body and several lenses. I see there's an article in the News dropdown which might help?

 

[Norm Neely]

I also have the EF 70-200mm lens. Is it worth is to buy an adapter to handle this lens

Yes! All your canon 7D lenses will work with it

Canon EOS R6 Mirrorless Camera $2,499.00 plus one of these adapters.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=canon ef to rf adapter&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ps

I think this adapter would be fine, check out the user reviews.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1433717-REG/canon_mount_adapter_ef_rf.html/reviews

$3,599 - $2499 = $1.100 - $99 = $1,001 in your purse for future purchases.

Ps. Hoping the R3 drops in price at the end of the year when the R1 is introduced.

If not, I'll consider getting an R6 body if I decide to go mirrorless.

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Norm

 

[Chris R-UK]

The newly announced APS-C R7 is a more direct replacement for your 7D, especially if you have any EF-S lenses that you want to continue to use.