Upgrade from 70D

[G-Slev]

I have had a 70D for 10 years, and I am thinking it is probably time for an upgrade. My main reason for thinking of an upgrade is that I shoot motorsport, and I understand autofocus has moved on massively in the time since I bought my 70D. The 70D is a great camera, but the autofocus sometimes gets a bit whacky, especially when panning.

I must admit that I really haven't kept pace with Canon's camera lines over the past few years - I have had no need to because I had the 70D. I understand the XXD line no longer exists and stopped at the 90D.

What would be a good enthusiast upgrade that would also allow me to continue to use my canon lenses (Tamron 150-600, Tamron 70-300 VC, Sigma 10-20, Canon 15-85) and would be roughly a modern equivalent to a 70D? I never buy new gear, so I would be looking for something used on MPB.

Thanks in advance for you thoughts folks!

 

[GeeJay57]

I’m still using a 7DII with my old 50D as a back up, and my wife has an 80D.

All still very capable, but getting a bit long in the tooth.

I have considered getting a 90D as ‘hedge’ against finally having to admit defeat and go mirrorless.

The nearest equivalent in the current line-up is the R7 which will (with the EF to RF converter) work with your current Canon lenses. I don’t know if the R series cameras will work with your third-party lenses.

Right now, if I needed to get a new camera it would be a toss-up between a 90D, a used 1DX2 or and R7.

 

[Willid1]

If motosport is your thing I could highly reccomend an R7, the subject tracking is amazing and means you are free to recompose on the fly rather than worrying about which focus point you have chosen in the frame, it's focusing is also lightning fast with L lenses.

I have no Non Canon lenses so I can't say if your current line up would work well or not, my advice (a bit pricey though on top of a R7) would be to buy a Canon 100-500 RF L - I use a 100-400L II with a converter and it works great, but I already had that lens, if I were coming to R mirrorless bodies without that I think I would have bought a 100-500, and you could still get a convertor to use your wide lenses

The R7 does a zillion things better than any of the XXD or for that matter the XD lines, have a read up of the spec and how it works

The only thing I wasn't too impressed with (coming from a full frame 5Dmk4) was the image noise at high ISO but with a bit of careful exposure and noise reduction in post it's been fine

HTH

David

 

[SpikeK6]

I am currently looking at the R7 as an upgrade, spoke to a couple of people that have them and they cannot recomend them enough for wild life motorsports etc, you can get the camera body with an adapter ring so you can use all EF lens on it