It is interesting to think about. If everyone that wants an R7ii more similar to the 7D and 7Dii ha bought one quickly, it should help influence Canon to decide to make an R7ii sooner, but would it affect the doward shift towards 90D like features to bring it back up?
My main issue with the R7 is not it being an R90, but the slow sensor dragging everything down. But I’m a fair weather fotographer
An aps-c 24mp stacked would be good enough for me, but I have difficulty thinking they wouldn't decide on a higher mp due to my perception of highest mp being a spec more people seem attracted to than sensor speed. This is definitely something I want to be wrong about and even more if they could do global without terrible iso.My main issue with the R7 is not it being an R90, but the slow sensor dragging everything down. But I’m a fair weather fotographer
Prediction: R7II will have a 24MP stacked sensor, no other resolutions are allowed
All these wishes are consistent with a camera priced closer to the 7D II intro price (close to $2400 in today's currency). I was surprised to see how low the price of the R7 was on introduction. Canon was clearly shooting for a much larger market than an APS-c camera priced similarly to an R6 would have achieved. Canon's moves in APS-c suggest that we may never see the unicorn that some are hoping for, or at least not see it until the required technology is much more commonplace so the price point can stay in the volume market. It is certain we will not see a mini R1 at least until the R1 is well established and a mini R1 is what you all are wishing for. At the present time, the Fuji X2-HS is the only APS-C camera with a stacked sensor that comes to mind and there you are at $2500 and that doesn't include the complexity of DPAF.
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I was only using the Fuji as an example to point out the likely price point of an R7 II that lived up to some of wishes of the previous commenters, but you are correct that Fuji does not have the long lens contingent that Canon offers.
I suggest that you continue to try to learn more about the camera. If you are not doing the following already, use Elec 1st curtain, and keep your fps at 15 or lower. Assign a button to toggle between your AF zones. Assign a button to turn off eye and subject detection for shooting in cluttered fore or backgrounds, or if too distant to see the eye. Also consider sending in your camera for repair.. I easily get between 80-90% keepers. Getting only 20% keepers tells me that there is something fundamentally wrong or not set correctly.
The R7 is an excellent camera when or if you know how to use it. The RF 200-800 in my opinion and for good reason is not a lens designed for the R7. It's a bit soft at the long end and f/9 is too narrow for the 32 Mpx APS-C sensor. The RF 100-500mm is more suitable, and the RF 100-400mm works surprisingly well with the R7. You can see my tests here; https://www.canonrumors.com/forum/threads/summary-of-my-rf-200-800mm-testing.43239/
All that said, I still find that I get really good pictures with r7/200-800 combo. I often need the reach and the lens bare with the R7 seems a bit sharper than the same lens with a 1.4 TC on the R5 with almost identical pixels on the bird. Dynamic range and focus behavior are very similar between the two setups, so the slight sharpness improvement added to the lighter weight package causes me to lean to the R7 when I need the reach. If I need every last bit of resolution, then I will pop a TC on the EF 800 f/5.6 L and use the R5, but the difference is just not that much. Really, just the diffraction difference for the most part.
Wink aside, has Canon ever released a "Mark" body with lower resolution than its predecessor? I can't think of any.Prediction: R7II will have a 24MP stacked sensor, no other resolutions are allowed
I can only think of one instance and it is not quite a direct "Mark N+1" situation. The original 1DX was pitched as a successor to both the 1D Mark IV and the 1Ds Mark III and that had lower resolution (18 MP vs 21 MP) compared to the 1DsIII.
I get it, not every model is good for every shooter, and even for a great camera, Canon sometimes ships a lemon. Lots of folks loved the 7D Mark II, but mine was a dog. My Sony a6400 ran rings around it (using adapted EF lenses, no less), which is why the Sony is still in my gear list and the 7D2 is long gone. OTOH, I love my R7. I'm limited by my own abilities rather than the camera's, and I can't think of anything a "Mark II" could add that would change that.
The rumor mill has been pretty quiet about an R72, other than a lot of wishful thinking in internet forums. But by your logic, there must have been some pretty big problems with the R6 for Canon to replace it after only 2 years and 4 months, but I don't recall hearing about them. We still have about two months to go to get to that point in the R7's timeframe (announced late May, 2022), but by this time after the R6 launch, rumors of the R62 were pretty rampant. R72 rumors? Crickets.
I agree. I bought a r7 to replace my 7d mII. But within a week I returned the r7. It just doens't meet the high standards of the 7d mII. In my opinion the 7d mII is far superior to the r7. I can't wait for a r7 mark II as a REAL successor of the 7d mII.
As an 18-year APS-C Canon shooter, I went mirrorless when the R7 came out two years ago. Mainly used full-frame glass with it until the Sigma RF-S 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN came out this July.
