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Sorry for quoting myself… ;-) But I want to add one related thought.
There was a time in the development of digital camera systems when everyone “needed” every improvement. (Well, OK, almost everyone.) For example, when cameras had 3MP, virtually everyone benefited from getting 6MP. As time went on, the advances in particular aspects of camera performance were meaningful to increasingly smaller segments of the market. For example, going from 36MP to 60 MP, while mathematically a significant difference, probably only really made a difference to a relatively small subset of photographers who truly need the added detail.
Similarly, going from, say, no burst mode to a 3fps burst mode was a pretty big deal, and even going from, say, 4 fps to 8 fps was meaningful to a whole lot of people. But going from 15fps to 30fps? (Much less going to crazy rates like 60 fps?) The size of the market segment that benefits from that in a meaningful way is very, very small.
The same is true of range of other performance parameters.
All of this is my long way of saying that for many (most?) but not quite all photographers, just about any current high quality camera has more than enough performance for just about anything they will do. (Again, I”m not speaking about the leading edge specialists who really may benefit from cutting edge performance on specific features.)
So let’s say we’re looking at the A7r6 from this perspective. Yes, there are cameras that will work faster or perhaps have a deeper buffer, but for all but a relatively small segment of the market the camera will work well for just about anything most photographers will do. (The same might be said about a camera with a lower MP sensor and more speed, even with the balance shifted a bit in a different direction.
YMMV.
gdanmitchell wrote:
You know, it a way it also ot doestn’ matter what camer ayou use, as long as you have the vision and skills to achieve the results you aspire to.
Canon, Nikon, Sony, fujifilm, whatever… I say pick whatever works for you and mostly stick with it over the long term, rarely changing brands. There’s a lot to be said for simply becoming very familiar with the ins and outs of whatever system you use — much like a musician continuing to play a very old instrument that he/she knows very, very well.
These days, all of the major brands make excellent cameras, and any competent photographer can do excellent work with any them. Pick a brand, settle on it for a reasonably long term, and focus on making photographs.
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Edited on May 14, 2026 at 03:55 PM · View previous versions
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