EOS 7D Replacement Time

[Wlgoodrich]

I’ve had a 7D for 13 years and I am ready to replace it since Canon no longer supports it. What would you recommend that has similar/better specs and buttons in similar places?

[Wlgoodrich]

Thank you!! Very helpful!! I appreciate the comparison chart. Seems like mirrorless is (has been) the way to go.

[Tronhard]

Yes.  The major advances in mirrorless technology have been an impetus to Canon to move across and drastically simplify their camera offerings.  So, instead of lens mounts for FF and APS-C DSLRs, plus EF M-series, they now have just the one mount, the R mount.
However, they have continued their dual sensor approach so while the size of the mount and the number of electronic connections is the same, they have made two different lens offerings: R and RF to cater for the different sensor sizes.  Just as before RF (and legacy EF) lenses will work with their APS-C sensors but the resultant images will be cropped.  You can use your EF-S lenses with both APS-C and FF R-sensors, but if you do use EF-S lenses with FF, the area of the sensor utilized will be reduced to that of an ASP-C sensor, drastically reducing the MP size of the resultant image. 
So, to cut to the chase, your EF and EF-S lenses should work fine with the R7 body.  I would definitely consider RF and RF-S lenses for future purchases.

[deebatman316]

@Tronhard I think you mean RF(Full Frame) & RF-S (APS-C). Canon did have an "R" Mount back in the 60s before the FD & FL Mounts.

[Tronhard]

Yes, of course I knew that!  What I meant was, just as in the DSLR days when EF and EF-S lenses would work on an EF-S mount, now the single RF mount will accommodate both RF and RF-S lenses.  Back in the DSLR days, one could not physically put an EF-S lens on a EF camera body because the lenses projected too far back into an APS-C body. and fouled the mirror.   Now, one can put EF-S lenses (via an EF-RF adapter) and (as I understand it) even some RF-S lenses onto the FF bodies, but those lenses will not project an image onto the whole FF sensor, thus reducing the Field of Capture to that of an APS-C sensor.

[deebatman316]

It is true ALL RF-S lenses (RF lens with an APS-C image circle) will mount on a Full Frame R series camera. The camera automatically switches 1.6x crop mode and CANNOT be changed unless a Full Frame lens is mounted. Note RF-S omit the AF/MF switch you have to go into the camera menu to enable AF or MF. On the R7 & R10 they have a physical switch on the body that changes between focus modes. This switch ONLY applies to lenses that lack an AF/MF switch on them. They also lack the IS switch too. I believe that IS is always on with these lenses. But they can be turned off in the camera menu.

[Wlgoodrich]

Thank you!