p.1 #1 · Any reason to keep A7iv in addition to my A7Cii?
Try to keep this brief. Decided to upgrade to Full Frame and scored a deal on a new A7iv. In the meantime I tried my friends’s A7Cii and fell in love with it, immediately went out and bought one. A7iv gets delivered 2 days later. I have just under 30 days to decide whether to keep or return it. I would get a full refund and would only be out about $50 on return shipping.
Is there any reason that would make keeping the A7iv “make sense”? I still have my A6600 and had planned to make that my “everyday carry” camera I always have with me and my A7Cii being for travel/vacations and for when I go out for landscape shoots. I’m pretty sure it’s just FOMO because I have it sitting in front of me and I’m psyching myself into thinking the option of having a joystick control and a fully mechanical shutter are stuff I’ll regret not having available to me, but I’d probably be better off just shooting on the A7Cii and saving that money toward something more “different” from the A7Cii like an A7RV, or maybe just a lens for travel that’s better than my Tamron 25-200.
p.1 #2 · Any reason to keep A7iv in addition to my A7Cii?
Maybe sell the other one if you know you do not need them both? Just decide which one
For me not having joystick was never a problem - this depends how you use your AF. However I disliked the very small EVF. With larger lenses A7IV ergonomics are much better, but with a tiny lens such as 40G small body feels very good. Personally I would not care about A/IV with a larger lens such as 25-200mm.
A7CII is a very good camera but it is also a very small size. If you like to use it, it might be the right one for you.
p.1 #3 · Any reason to keep A7iv in addition to my A7Cii?
I'd return them both, get A7V (because better resolution screen with tilt function, more DR, electronic shutter), keep 6600 as an EDC/travel camera.
If a7CII doesn't have any serious downside for you (screens, lack of joystick, EFCS), I don't see the point any other camera, since it has the same size as 6600. I'd keep CII in this case and save some cash, or buy some lenses. If you want high resolution sometime, then returning CII for CR is also worth considering.
p.1 #4 · Any reason to keep A7iv in addition to my A7Cii?
If you only had a need for one full-frame camera when you took possession of the A7Cii then why would you suddenly have a need for a second one? Because it's already been ordered and on its way? That doesn't seem like a good reason to keep the second one.
p.1 #5 · Any reason to keep A7iv in addition to my A7Cii?
This is what happens when people have too much money and lack self-control. Why order one camera, buy another at the same time, and then ask others what to do next? Especially when you know about as much about either camera as you do about your own needs? Normally, you think things through before you buy, not after.
p.1 #6 · Any reason to keep A7iv in addition to my A7Cii?
I'm not sure one "needs" three cameras. But it's not something I worry about for someone else, not my business or hobby or budget, and I'm considering a fourth (again), having sent one off to a new home recently. Which to keep? I use my A6700 and A7Riv in full mechanical shutter almost exclusively, reducing rolling shutter impacts. It's really individual. Different locations, different subject matter. You have an A6600 so would be familiar with the size related things for the A7Cii.
I think there's some reduced lens choice complexity if "wanting" backup or sharing lenses if both cameras are the same sensor size and going with two bodies for the trip, shoot, etc.
I'm considering adding an A7Rv instead of the A7CR. But besides the mechanical shutter, there's the improved finder. The better finder is my big interest there. I also have some larger lenses. On the camera bodies you're discussing, the finders don't differ as much. If dealing with several lenses and/or two bodies at a time, the body size difference becomes a smaller part of the whole package. But one body at a time, yes, the smaller series and a smaller lens might be nicely smaller. Again, all individual.
