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snegron7 wrote:
Welcome to my world. 😀
Allow me to make this patently easy for both of you. The primary decision YOU have to make for YOURSELF is system size and weight limits for travel and street vs say landscape, sports, wildlife, or lifestyle. Once you have that cemented, here's my view after years of shooting travel, street, lifestyle and landscape with a multitude of systems from M43 through medium format digital.
M43. You'll make nice "postcard" style images in good light with this system. It won't do shallow DoF or lower light evening outdoors or travel indoors like old churches and such. And why this became a non-option for me.
APSC. You'll again make wonderful postcard style travel images, and fare a bit better in lower light, but still not really great at really low light or shallow DoF looks or styles if that's what you're after. Size is nice compared to Canon and Nikon top tier FF, but this advantage is reduced significantly when Sony FF enters the discussion.
MF. Wonderful files, wonderful ability to render DoF styles, arguably the best landscape files you could wish for *as long as you're willing to accept the obvious at 100% diffraction that has crept in after f9.* Not so great at higher ISO, superwide glass, super long glass or faster action needs.
FF. The dreamland of options for everything from super wide to super long, to low light, to wide aperture, shallow DoF, to sweeping, extended DoF landscapes, to fast action and wildlife across all focal lengths. For travel can be heavyish and/or largish compared to APSC.
BUT here Sony has some options Canon and Nikon* don't... IF I couldn't take the weight of a Sony A7R5/6 and smaller f4 zooms and f1.8 primes for travel, I would get an A7CR or A7Cii. The last two with a few f4 zooms are essentially the same size and weight as the Fuji XT5/XH2 cams with their f2.8 zooms. And in the case of superwide, the Tamron FF 12-20/2.8 is a bit smaller and lighter than the Fuji 8-16/2.8 zoom; Sony's f4 70-200 OSS ii is about the same size and weight as the Fuji 50-150/2.8 zoom; and finally the Sony 20-70/4 is about the same size as the newer 16-55/2.8 Fuji zoom; so for the most part this becomes a net sum game where the difference is FF vs APSC. And for me, FF wins 8 days a week.
(*To be fair, Nikon has the Z7ii at about the same weight as the Sony A7R6, but the lenses are all significantly larger. In Nikon's corner however is the outstanding 24-105 zoom, so with that lens alone, it could be a worthy competitor to my Sony choice for travel -- assuming one is willing to put aside several camera function shortfalls compared to the Sony A7R6.)
In my case, the Sony A7R6 with battery and media is 198 gm heavier than the A7Cii. While not trivial, I carried both over my shoulder with the same lenses in the bag for a few extended days of shooting. The weight difference was not really all that noticeable, though surprisingly the size difference was more so; not hugely but there, and more importantly in the end for me, not enough for me to want to give up the newer cameras EVF, exquisite files and enhanced battery life. Add in dual card support and redundancy, and it was an easy decision for me to sell off the A7Cii.
There you have it in a nutshell. Yes, I am claiming FF in general for the broadest flexibility. Moreover, I am claiming Sony FF size and performance superiority for travel in the A7Cxx line; and if you can handle the extra bit of size and weight, I will go on record stating the A7R6 may as close to the ideal "all-around" camera body I have ever owned period...
And yeah, I know some of you won't like me being so utterly direct and decisive here, so flame-suit donned 
EDIT: I'm going to go one step further for the OP. Sell EVERYTHING you now have except the Sony Tamron zooms. Buy an A7R6 and an A7CR. Use them with your Tammy zooms and decide what if anything you want to expand on OR eliminate and do it. You should have plenty of cash left over to add a couple GM zooms and good primes and you will literally own the best of all worlds to cover YOUR stated desires. You'll have great lens range, a great body for travel, a great body for landscape, sports and wildlife AND a good backup body to the A7R6 in case you need it.
See, I told you this was easy 
Edited on Sep 07, 2026 at 02:03 PM · View previous versions
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