I know this is something I should ultimately decide for myself, but I’m curious if anyone’s been through the same thing.
I just picked up an R6ii but still have my RP. With the RP and a small lens like the 28mm or 16mm f/2.8, it’s a really nice, lightweight setup for when I don’t want to carry all my gear.
That said, I’m wondering if I’m overthinking it—because the R6ii isn’t that much bigger, and its handling, AF, and final image quality are clearly better. So if I’m going to bring a camera anyway, maybe I should just bring the R6ii for the consistency and more keepers.
Has anyone been in this situation and found you ended up not using the smaller body much after upgrading?
The biggest issue I see is the different batteries
Now if you’d said you’d bought the newer R8 then it makes perfect sense to hold onto the RP as I think they also share the same booster for the base?
But seeing as the R6ii uses a different battery, has a different layout I think it will catch you out sooner or later.
I have the RP and did consider the R8 for the reasons stated above.
I would suggest that if you go on once in a lifetime type trips often then you should always have a back-up camera to take with you. Or if you shoot important events such a weddings etc.
Otherwise, the back-up will only collect dust, so you might as well sell it.
I kept my old 70D all these years just for back-up and never use it. Now it's so far behind the tech curve that I left it home during a recent trip to Yellowstone & Tetons and only took my R5.
SkippyW wrote:
Sell it off while it still has some value.
Use your phone as backup if your R6II goes down (and probably won't).
Well, my R6II went down a while back. Luckily where I live so no real problem, but it cost me 400 euros to have it fixed, minus 200 euros from the Austrian government to support repairs and decrease e-waste. It’s a good camera, but s**t happens.
It's handy to have each camera setup with a different lens, ready to grab and run out the door. I shoot with the R, R7 and R6 MK II and use them all regularly, often two at once for video.
I've always found having a second body with a different focal length is really helpful for shooting at events when it is busy. As a result I've liked having two bodies and so I have both an R5 and kept my RP. I also started taking the RP for travel this year too.
RP is nice because it's a fullframe in R10-R50 size, but the sensor is really outdated, as far as I remember it was even wee bit worse than the 6D sensor which I think is the best of the old sensor types in non-1D cameras.
Maybe these days I'd swap it for its updated version called R8.
When I upgraded from my 5D Mark III I ended up selling it right away. I always somewhat regretted it. I just recently rebought one because I found one really cheap and I missed shooting on it. It’s worse than my mirrorless set up in every way but I still like it.
My rec would be to keep it for a while before you decide. If you end up using it then keep it but if a few months go by with no use perhaps get rid of it? There’s also no point in letting it collect dust when you could give it a second life.
I do believe that 2 bodies are a good thing to have on long trips away from home or for events where there is a certain pace to taking pictures that makes frequent lens changes more challenging. I started mirrorless with 2 RP bodies, and later upgraded to the R6 mk2 and R8. Once you have moved to the more recent generation of sensors the older ones show their age, and the RP more so as it has a 2016 sensor. The R8 made sense because it has the same batteries and body format as the RP, so I did not need to purchase spare batteries for it. The R6 mk2 really only needs one spare battery, the newer generation of R cameras is much more frugal in power consumption. The R6 mk2 and R8 have the same sensor so using the two bodies in tandem gives consistent results. For landscape I will have the 24-105 on the R6 mk2 and an alternate lens on the R8 that can be the 70-200, 10-20 or 100-400.
Back to the OP's actual question, the RP was a great introduction to the mirrorless system 6 years ago, but now that you have moved on to state-of-the-art gear with the R6 mk2 the RP images will show their age.
The RP is not a bad camera. I used that camera and an old, FL 55 1.2 for a long time. I put more faith in glass then camera bodies. Most of these were shot at 1.4
Jim
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