What should I upgrade to? + HELP

[Seanac]

Whar should I upgrade to? + HELP

Hi guys, new member here. I currently own a Canon T6S (760D) and I mainly shoot aviation photography. I feel like I have outgrown the T6S and am thinking about selling it and purchasing a new camera. I would like to know if anyone has any recommendations on what camera body I should upgrade to. I want it to be reasonably “cheap”, under 1,000 dollars.

Also. I have read other peoples threads about what they’re upgrading to, and have seen people with the same camera as mine (T6S) getting recommended a camera with less megapixels. 
Now I know this isn’t the best thing for me to ask about.. because it makes me sound very inexperienced, but why are people recommending cameras with less megapixels to people who already have more megapixels? For example, a downgrade from 24MP to 20MP. I hope I don’t sound too dumb, but what are the perks to this? Is more megapixels not good?

These are my lenses:

Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM (My main lens)

Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM

Canon 18-55mm Kit lens 

Thanks for the help, looking forward to the replies.

[Seanac]

Hi, yeah as kvbarkley said high end cameras use CF cards which makes it capable for you to almost practically hold down the shutter on RAW and not have the FPS slow down.

The issue with my camera isn’t the FPS (which is 5) it’s that when I take a couple continuous shots, the shutter then slows down to 1.40FPS because the buffer is full.

Here’s a real world example, say a fighter jet is taking off, and I continuously shoot it once I begin to see it. My buffer then gets full while it’s still approaching me, and then while the jet is flying by me I only get two shots and I miss a ton of great angles all because my buffer got full from continuous shooting. Once I have continuously shot a few frames my camera slows down to 1.40FPS (Normally the camera has 5FPS but the buffer gets full)

I don’t know how to solve this because my camera doesn’t take CF cards and I believe my SD cards are too slow, but my SD cards are average and I don’t think I can get the same results I want (“long time” continuous shooting) without a CF card.

Hoping someone can maybe reply with a solution, or if I should just look into buying the 7d Mk2.

Thanks

[jrhoffman75]

There isn’t much you can do. Depending on the SD cards you still have you could buy a higher speed card, but then the camera would become limiting. And that assumes that the cards you have are limiting (which they may not be). If your current cards are UDMA 7 rated then they are equal to exceeding camera capability. 

[kvbarkley]

Don't continuously shoot. Why have 20 shots that all look the same? Choose several points where you get the best shot and take it there.

If you really want continuous, and you don't do much editing, shoot JPEG and shoot all day.

[Seanac]

I am just using basic SanDisk 130 MB/S cards, is there a card I could try out to see peak performance on my T6S?

[jrhoffman75]

See this article. 
https://www.cameramemoryspeed.com/canon-t6s-t6i/sd-card-comparison/#:~:text=Canon%20EOS%20Rebel%20T6...

[Seanac]

Well.. I don’t always continuously shoot, but as I can see you are an aviation photographer (or have Atleast taken some aviation photos) here’s an example

(I only continuously shoot on fast jets normally)

Are you familiar with the Nellis flex departure? The flex departure is similar to what I will be describing. The flex departure is where the planes takeoff and do a sharp turn / bank showing the topside of their aircraft. A great angle for us photogs.

In January there were F-35’s at my local airport. I caught them taking off and they did a cool sharp bank/turn out like the Nellis flex departure.

The F-35s we’re going fast on takeoff obviously, and they only began to turn into my direction when they were equal to my side/straight infront of my side. I was continuously shooting because it’s a fast jet, but by the time the jet began its turn I was shooting 1.40FPS because my buffer was full, and thus I missed a lot of angles of the plane turning. I got about 2 good shots of it turning out, the others were taken just seconds before the jet started its turn (prior to my buffer being full and my camera slowing down to 1.40FPS from 5FPS)

I normally time my continuously shooting really well, but sometimes like this time I just want to hold it down.

Here’s an example of the departure they did, and one of my few good photos of it (image downsized 1200px) 

[kvbarkley]

Yes. I have been on the Nellis filightline many times. I actually got kicked off because I was taking photos at the golf course at the south end of the runway.

[ebiggs1]

"Don't continuously shoot. Why have 20 shots that all look the same?'

Actually I was wondering that myself. I don't see continuous shooting being necessary in this case. My finger is pretty fast if need be! 😁

[John_SD]

"The main overall thing I want is better quality, and if I were to get the 7d2 then my quality would drop 4 megapixels."

Don't take this the wrong way, but it is clear to me that you need to take a Photography 101 course. You will learn plenty, believe me. Along the way, try to learn something about lenses if you are serious about getting "better quality." Good luck.