Thinking of upgrading from the R10

[zeucqu2]

I’ve been using the R10 for the past 2ish years and feel like treating myself for Christmas. It’s between a used R6 from MPB or a brand new R8. They roughly cost the same of around €1500. I have no interest in video using them purely for photo. I use these purely for a hobby but maybe some day for paid work. Any recommendations?

[Tronhard]

Hi and welcome:
Much depends on what and how you photograph.  There are several notable differences between the R6 and R8:

• The R6 is more robustly build with better weather sealing, so better for shooting in the wild
• It has In-body Image Stabilization, so definitely a bonus if shooting in low light, with long lenses hand-held, especially with lenses that do not have IS built in.
• The R6 has more customization options than the R8, if that is something you can take advantage of
• The R6 will take the BG-R10 or BG-R20 battery grip and uses the variants of the large-capacity LP-E6 battery series, whereas the R8 does not have a Canon battery grip and uses the smaller-capacity LP-E17 batteries.  This is useful not only for the extra energy reserve but the battery grips have duplicate controls for shooting in portrait mode, which makes a huge difference when using long focal-length lenses.
• The R8 has a larger capacity 24MP sensor, whereas the R6 has a 20MP one - so much depends on what you do with the images in terms of cropping and producing very large prints.  For most digital applications either is good.

Without knowing what you shoot, what lenses you will use with it and what you produce, it's hard for us to be more specific.

Note: any RF-S lenses you have for the R10 will not fully use the full-frame sensor of the R6 or R8, reducing the output from from 20MP R6 to about 7.7 and the 24MP sensor on the R8 to about 10MP.  So, you would need to factor in an RF lens as part of your consideration if you want to fully realize the benefits of FF.

[p4pictures]

I currently own EOS R6, EOS R10 and EOS R6 Mark II.

Compared to the EOS R10 you might find the AF a step backwards as it can only do clever subject and eye detection with the whole area, called Face + Tracking AF. It's quite a change from the EOS R10. In low light it is truly a brilliant camera, mine has been able to focus in the dark when it was so dark I could hardly see the subject, let alone focus accurately on the eye.

I think you would find the EOS R8 a more equivalent step up to full-frame. It also uses the same LP-E17 battery as your EOS R10. EOS R8 has essentially the same image sensor as the EOS R6 Mark II. 

Of my three cameras the EOS R6 Mark II and EOS R10 are the ones that get the most use for a wide range of photography from sports to portraits to wildlife.