Upgrade to a Canon 7D?

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I currently have two Canon 20D's and am getting frustrated by the lack of auto focus accuracy and flexibility, so I'm looking to upgrade to a camera with better AF.
I want to spend as little as possible and noticed 7D prices are quite low now - around £650 for a new one.

I mostly use my camera for portraits of my son; either stationary or tracking him running around.

Is the 7D the best Canon camera to go for at this price?
 
I've found a new 7D for £565 so will go for that.
The 6D is nearly double the price and I feel the AF will be no better than my 20D. Plus it uses SD memory and I have large CF cards which I don't want to replace.

The perfect camera is the 5D MK3 but I can't spend £1.7k on a camera.
 
Vertigo1 said:
There are better cameras these days but not for the same money.
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Yup :)
For £600 the 7D is unbeatable, it's old but doesn't suddenly stop taking good photos because it's discontinued.
Like you pointed out, the 70D is at best identical in features and costs more.

Hunders said:
They're ok. I found the high ISO lacking to be honest.
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High ISO is pretty rubbish on the 7D but my main lens is a 135 L F2 and with the savings (over the 6D) I can buy a Sigma 18-35 F1.8 to go with it. So low light/High ISO isn't a problem.

Thanks for your help :)
 
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My lenses are pretty decent and would cost a lot to replace, if the equivalent Sony is even available.
- Canon 17-40L
- Canon 135L F2
- Sigma 8-16

The Sony A6000 looks good but I want to stick with a DSLR.
 
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Sh4rkie said:
I never said it was far superior though :p. The image quality on the Canon crop cameras hasn't significantly changed that much if any (beyond >1:1 pixel peeping) in years, this is why my old 40D served me well for 6 years!.
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Also the reason why my 20D's have served me well for 10 years :)

As for the Sony, 179 focus points!! I imagine it's cumbersome cycling through those :p
 
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An update on this - I changed my mind 3 times.

I was very close to getting a new 7D for about £600, but then read a few 7D vs 6D posts on the Canon POTN forum and decided to get a 6D. Purely down to the full frame image quality improvement and the comments about AF being pretty decent.

I had the camera in my basket but couldn't convince myself it was justified.
So I ended up buying a used Canon 40D for about £200 and it's a worthy, cheap upgrade over my 20D.

Years ago dropping thousands on camera equipment wasn't an issue but now I have other priorities which I'd rather spend my money on.

I will make the move to a 6D in couple of years.

P.S : The 20D can still take decent shots :)

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This was captured with him jumping around on our trampoline.

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So after everything I have previously posted I have just gone and ordered a new Canon 6D.
I thought the 40D had a lens focus adjust feature but it doesn't and my 135L lens has 5-6cm back focus which is really annoying.

The 6D was only £880 new, without the Wi-Fi and GPS features, which appear to be totally useless anyway.

Just got to hide this purchase from my partner now :D
 
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It's the 6D 'N' model.

The GPS kills the battery; even when the camera is turned off the GPS is still running. You need to manually disable the option each time to stop it.
Wi-Fi is very slow for transferring files and the remote EOS App is currently rubbish.
 
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