Keep R7 or R8 after upgrade?

[Morgen]

I'll (hopefully) be upgrading to a Canon R6 III in the next week or 2, for video as much or more than still photography. I Currently have both R8 and R7 (with kit 18-150 as only crop lens). For common sense sake of having a back up camera as well as my partner wanting to learn to shoot I want to keep one of them but I'm having trouble deciding which to sell and which to keep

R7 has much better battery life and no over heat issues as well as an actual shutter and feel less toy like, but poorer low light performance and worse (IME) focus tracking.

R8 battery life is crap with 4K60 video as well as well as heat issues but so much better in low light. (BTW the heat and battery performance on the R8 in 4k is part of why I'll be upgrading, battery or heat issues in general photography on the R8 have never been an issue)

Guess I'm just trying to make the decision I'll regret least

 

[THXGEEK]

Hello!

I'd keep the R7 for the reasons you've described. As this will potentially be someone's 'starter' camera, the lack of low light performance and worse focus tracking may well be valuable teaching tools. The newbie will learn to use light to their advantage and also learn valuable skills on focusing. How any of us have become (overly) dependent on auto-focusing/tracking? Learning these skills early on will make them better photographers in the long run.

Enjoy your new R6III!

Cheers!

 

[Only RF]

I vote for the R7.

 

[Archibald]

It is very good strategy to have both full frame and high-px crop. FF (with a good lens) is fantastic for general photography, whereas the R7 is great for focal-length-limited situations (like bird photography), again assuming a good lens.

 

[Only RF]

It is very good strategy to have both full frame and high-px crop. FF (with a good lens) is fantastic for general photography, whereas the R7 is great for focal-length-limited situations (like bird photography), again assuming a good lens.

I'm getting close to my 1 year experiment with just owning a FF. I did update from the R6II to the R6III last fall. The R6III crops well and I can use LrC's Super Resolution. When the R7II comes out I won't order it. I'll wait until my dealer has one that I can hold and try out. Canon Rumours are speculating it may be 39mp. If so that would work well with the 100-500 without needing a TC for BIF.