Then there will be the R1! And then it will be time for an updated R5! And Sony will come out with something new! And Nikon! And...
New technology is usually. a good thing, but maybe not quite a life-changing great as we hope. (If it really were that great... we'd be able to keep using it for more than three years without needing to buy another replacement, right?)
With few exceptions, those with good, functional cameras who imagine that The Next New Thing is going to Change Their Lives Forever would not be making a mistake if they went just a bit slower on this stuff. In the great majority of cases, it isn't like your current gear is _really_ holding you back that much, nor is the new stuff likely to change your life as radically as the marketing suggests.
Is there a time to upgrade? Certainly! When your old gear is actually getting long in the tooth, really starts to hold you back in significant ways, or is becoming unreliable it is time. Or, I guess, if you just like buying new stuff for the thrill of acquisition. Or if you are making so much money from your photography that you can afford to play with all the newest things.
Dan
Well said.
I actually hate buying new stuff, not so much because of the money but because buying new stuff usually entails a bunch of ancillary activities that may or may not get done (but should get done, such as selling stuff I no longer use).
I have found, though, that since getting an R, I usually do not want to work with my older cameras because the eye tracking makes my job so much easier. I suspect the eye control w/ be a feature that also will want to make me not want to use older cameras.
In my experience, we aren't always on a leaps-and-bounds feature trajectory as we are now w/ this relatively new mirrorless tech.
Best thing might be simply to wait with your EF lenses and cameras until the mirrorless tech matures.
Then there will be the R1! And then it will be time for an updated R5! And Sony will come out with something new! And Nikon! And...
New technology is usually. a good thing, but maybe not quite a life-changing great as we hope. (If it really were that great... we'd be able to keep using it for more than three years without needing to buy another replacement, right?)
With few exceptions, those with good, functional cameras who imagine that The Next New Thing is going to Change Their Lives Forever would not be making a mistake if they went just a bit slower on this stuff. In the great majority of cases, it isn't like your current gear is _really_ holding you back that much, nor is the new stuff likely to change your life as radically as the marketing suggests.
Is there a time to upgrade? Certainly! When your old gear is actually getting long in the tooth, really starts to hold you back in significant ways, or is becoming unreliable it is time. Or, I guess, if you just like buying new stuff for the thrill of acquisition. Or if you are making so much money from your photography that you can afford to play with all the newest things.
Dan
Well said.
Nov 02, 2021 at 03:24 PM
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