Great blue heron using EOS R6 Mark II

[Elgardo-Rivera]

Hi everyone. First time here. Glad to be part of the community. I went to one of the local parks in my area (Lehigh Parkway, located in Allentown, PA) and took this shot with the R6 mk ii paired with RF 70-200 f4fL (ISO 160, 200 mm, 0ev, f5.6,1/160 s) and heavily cropped as you can see from the original. Made minor tweaks using Luminar Neo but no use of Ai tools within the program. Camera was on manual mode. Looking to upgrade to R5 or R5 mk ii to see if I can get better without having to spend too much on longer-reaching lenses. Thank you in advanced for your inputs.

[TomRamsey]

Well done

[Elgardo-Rivera]

Thanks!

[Tronhard]

That is a great shot and ably demonstrates a couple of things:
For wildlife, with a short FL lens you are going to have to crop.
In this case, the RF 70-200L did the job.

That said, as you have alluded to, optics are a far, far longer lasting investment than a camera body.  As a wildlife photographer myself, I would encourage you to get a lens such as the truly excellent RF 200-800 which, if you kept it with your current 70-200, would give you an unbroken focal range of 70-800mm.   

The R6II is a fabulous camera and is, in terms of focus, superior to the R5, having a newer version of technology.  The R5II has that updated and expanded, but depending on what you produce, I would question if you would get the most value from the investment.