topic Re: Camera Upgrade in Gear Guide

Upgrade recos from EOS R100 with kit lenses and RF50mm

shotsbylayne — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:14:32 GMT

Hello I am a highschool age photographer who does a lot of sports photography, I currently have an R100 with both of the kit lenses aswell as the rf 50mm f/1.8. I am very quickly growing out of it. I am wondering what would be a good upgrade preferably under $800 for the body. The dream is to have the rf70-200mm f/2.8 as a lens.

Re: Camera Upgrade

p4pictures — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:52:56 GMT

If you want to keep your existing kit lenses from the R100 then you’ll need to look at other cameras with an APS-C size sensor. That list includes the EOS R50, EOS R10 and EOS R7.

I have the EOS R10 - and an EOS R6 Mk2 - and use both for motorsports photography.

Re: Camera Upgrade

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:28:17 GMT

@shotsbylayne wrote:

Hello I am a highschool age photographer who does a lot of sports photography, I currently have an R100 with both of the kit lenses aswell as the rf 50mm f/1.8. I am very quickly growing out of it. I am wondering what would be a good upgrade preferably under $800 for the body. The dream is to have the rf70-200mm f/2.8 as a lens.

I recommend you stretch your budget a little and get the R10, particularly if you are looking at getting the zoom lens. Larger body size.

Both of these companies are reputable and very honest in their ratings of condition.

I have purchased several RF lenses from both of them.

Canon refurbished gear is also a good source, but Im checked and they are out of stock on the R10.

Re: Camera Upgrade

kvbarkley — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:06:29 GMT

What are you “growing out of”?
the better lens might be all you need.

Re: Camera Upgrade

shotsbylayne — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:25:54 GMT

The nighttime performance and the shooting speed, the autofocus is also not great.

Re: Camera Upgrade

p4pictures — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:16:17 GMT

There is much better low light performance with a full-frame camera than what your current R100 is able to achieve. Additionally the EOS R100 draws from the earlier EOS M50 camera, and as such it does not have the AF performance that the other R-series cameras such as EOS R10 / R50 / R7 and the full-frame models have. Additionally the EOS R100's older sensor technology puts it behind even the EOS R10 and EOS R50 in low light performance.

With low light performance you can improve the camera capability, and or you can get more light in to the camera with a faster aperture lens like the RF 70-200mm F2.8 you mentioned. Both lens and camera together makes the biggest difference.

For your budget then the EOS R10 is probably the best option at this time. The additional pixels in the EOS R7 don't help in low light performance, and the EOS R50 is a little slower at 12/15fps against the EOS R10's 15/23fps when using continuous high speed drive mode.

If you do consider a full-frame camera then you will need to swap out your kit lenses, though the 50mm F1.8 will be fine for full-frame. Suggested full-frame cameras are the EOS R6 Mark II and EOS R8. A used EOS R6 (Mk1) is worth consideration too.