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Max_Pain wrote:
Whoah. Did not mean to start infighting at FM 
Just curious. I had a few hours to discuss this with my wife on my way to buy another outdated piece of equipment (Mark I 500mm f/4L IS) and she's of the mindset that I'm living in nostalgia and I should get with the times. But the times are expensive and I'm not quite sure I want to spend that kind of money. I'll keep thinking about it. 
It's most expensive if you buy current or very recently released gear new. But as you seem to know, buying used reduces some of the depreciation hit. The older the used item, the lower the depreciation hit. 1DXII is a 2016 release and if buying a good condition used copy, you'll avoid most of the depreciation... R6 is a ~2020 release. It's about 85-90% as 'capable' as the current R6II (for faster paced action situations) but similarly, buying a good condition used copy will avoid some of the depreciation. Maybe not as much as the 1DXII, but it's really up to you to decide where the middle ground lies between getting the features you want at the price you feel is reasonable.
Like some others who posted previous, I used all the Canon 1 series cameras (right from the EOS-1) and had a strong 1-series bias in respect to the performance the series offered relative to the rest of the lineup. But something changed with Canon and their mirrorless releases. There is less core functional/capability variation across the range of current FF models compared to the previous EF system cameras. I tried them all (R3, 5, 6, 7) compared to my 1DXII (with which I had years of experience) and ended up with the R6 and R6II. While there are clearly physical/ergonomic differences between those and the 1DXII (that caused me some adjustment pains), both the R6 and R6II offer superior AF performance, including in challenging fast-paced situations. But what really won me over was the subject/face/eye detection and tracking capabilities of the mirrorless cameras. If you do a lot of people photography, this capability is literally a 'game changer' in respect to how you can compose images on the fly while the camera dynamically tracks the subject throughout the frame. And correct/accurate focus is consistently much better than I ever experienced with DSLRs (where I frequently over-shot to ensure enough images were correctly focused). If DSLRs could do that as well as mirrorless then I'd probably have put off the transition, but the only DSLRs I used that could come close had to be used in live view to achieve similar consistency... and that's effectively using them as mirrorless cameras.
IMO this is not a DSLR vs mirrorless face-off. Rather, it's a question of what equipment has the best capabilities to do what you need at the price you're willing to pay. For me, I was willing to buy lower-end mirrorless models to minimize the transition cost, rather than going for the R3 as a direct 1D series replacement, because those still outperformed the 1DXII in the parameters that mattered to me. Given your posts, it sounds like you feel the best value for you is several camera generations back. If that's the case, give the 1DXII a try. It should be a massive upgrade from the 6DII. Then in 2-3 years, revisit mirrorless options. By that point a camera like the R6II will likely be in the $1K range.
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