As I mentioned elsewhere, some foolish forgetfulness on holiday has killed my mk I 7D - while everything was fine when I finished using it, putting a still wet camera in my still wet camera bag, then just slinging it in the car boot overnight rather than (a) removing the battery and (b) bringing it in the tent to dry out has wrecked the electronics that communicate with the lens for AF and aperture.
A mark one isn’t even worth the excess on my insurance even if I thought I had a good case to claim, but obviously I don’t want someone else’s 10 year old camera. The problem is, though, that the 90D looks pretty shocking on the AF front for birding from what I’ve seen on YouTube, the obvious choice of a mark II seems silly when it’s five years old and discontinued practically everywhere, and while it would be nice to have the full frame sensor for non-bird stuff, neither a 6D II nor the affordable R models have the pixels if I have to crop. I’d somehow got it into my head the R6 would be a 6D killer, but not at £2.5k.
Is there really no good option other than a second hand 7D II unless I either wait and hope for this mythical crop-frame R or start saving for an R5? As a mere hobbyist that last one doesn’t seem likely to happen any time soon. Any suggestions are extremely welcome.
A mark one isn’t even worth the excess on my insurance even if I thought I had a good case to claim, but obviously I don’t want someone else’s 10 year old camera. The problem is, though, that the 90D looks pretty shocking on the AF front for birding from what I’ve seen on YouTube, the obvious choice of a mark II seems silly when it’s five years old and discontinued practically everywhere, and while it would be nice to have the full frame sensor for non-bird stuff, neither a 6D II nor the affordable R models have the pixels if I have to crop. I’d somehow got it into my head the R6 would be a 6D killer, but not at £2.5k.
Is there really no good option other than a second hand 7D II unless I either wait and hope for this mythical crop-frame R or start saving for an R5? As a mere hobbyist that last one doesn’t seem likely to happen any time soon. Any suggestions are extremely welcome.