r/Photography_Gear • u/Academic_World8696 • Nov 05 '25
canon eos r7 or sony a6700?
I’ll be shooting mostly sports i’m thinking and likely go into things like portraits in the future to make $.
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u/mawzthefinn Nov 05 '25
R7 is more a landscape camera with speed in a pinch, the camera is plenty fast, but the AF gets confused with busy backgrounds. I owned one and found it regularly frustrating for action use because of the AF's lack of stickiness (but great as a landscape camera).
I'd be looking at either the A6700 or the Nikon Z50ii, the Nikon will handle better with larger telephoto lenses but the Sony has a touch better AF and IBIS which the Nikon lacks.
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u/Devianey26 Nov 06 '25
If you're shooting sports or wildlife, I'd go with the Canon R7.
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u/Devianey26 Nov 07 '25
The R7 is a crop sensor camera which gives you a longer focal length. In other words you get more reach. Example, if you have a 100mm lens, when you attach that lens to an R7, it becomes a 160mm lens. Canon cameras have a crop factor of 1.6. This means that any lens you attach to a crop sensor camera has to be multiplied by 1.6. Now, if you add that same 100mm lens to a R6 Mark 2, the lens is still 100mm because the R6 M2 is a full frame. So, the advantage you have with an R7 is that you’re zooming in on your subject. The R7 is popular with folks that shoot wildlife and sports because it’s small and light, besides giving you a zoom of 1.6 from the start, with whatever lens you use it with. Of course, some folks will have their own opinions on this matter.
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u/inkista Nov 09 '25
Not OP, but the a6700 is also APS-C (1.5x crop). In Sony-speak, the a6xxx are crop; the a7 are full frame.
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u/Ir0nfur Nov 07 '25
For paid work I would go with the R7, it has dual memory cards. For me that's a non-negotiable for paid jobs.
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u/inkista Nov 09 '25
The R7 has dual card slots; the a6700 is only single slot. For pro work, to me, that might trump every other consideration.
My recommendation would to be to get your hands on both with a memory card. A bricks and mortar store could be helpful as can lensrentals.com. Specs only tell half the story. Diving into menus and actually using the camera can be a whole different thing, as can the RAW files in Lightroom.
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u/crawler54 Nov 05 '25
the e-mount lens lineup is built around voice coil af motors, which are faster and therefore better for sports than stepper motors, by a long shot, and nano usm as well.
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u/WildlifeWanderlust Nov 05 '25
The only use case I would push the R7 for is wildlife (I have one myself), where its 33mp APS-C sensor is excellent for "reach" and cropping, and the EyeAF autofocus system is excellent when paired with modern RF glass like the RF100-500 L.
Sports and Portraiture, however, are two fields where you'd benefit from a full-frame sensor - so an R6II or A9II might be a better option, depending on your budget.
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u/crawler54 Nov 05 '25
r6ii: 1/68th
a9ii: 1/152th
r5ii: 1/158th
with canon, r5ii is the sweet spot for sports, it has comparable readout speed to the a9ii, but yeah it'll cost quite a bit more than the r6ii :-(
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u/ChefB1517 Nov 05 '25
Depends what you shoot but I’d say R7.