Why does EVERYBODY besides Canon shooters start seeing red when someone announces they want a Canon Camera?
It's not because the sensors are better.

So why so much insecurity and jealousy?!

Is it because Canon is #1. Is it because more pros use them than any other camera? Is it because they shoot faster? Is it because they have more AF lenses? Or maybe because in real world tests the 5Dmklll is always picked the better camera over the D810? Or because Canon sells 10x more cameras than Sony?

Canons are just a flat out better camera and the new 7Dmkll must be pretty intimidating, but why all the jealousy?!

NOW, breath iiiiin, now breath ooooout. See, the red is already going away! :lol: :lol: :lol:
SS

I'm just curious. I bought my first cameras in Vietnam because you could get them cheap at the PXs there. I learned to use the darkroom at Special Services in Qui Nhon. I got hooked and have been ever since.

It appears that a lot of us are of a certain (ahem) age, and from some of the comments I've seen on various threads, I have a feeling that quite a few of us started out in Vietnam. Personally, photography and my USAA membership are the two best things I got from military service :) :)

We have been using interchangeable lenses in one body only since Columbus discovered America. With digital it has been the same and I can understand your concerns for dust on the sensor but, is dust on the sensor more expensive to clean than buying a new body?
If you were a professional, lets say a wedding photographer, two similar bodies fit with two different lenses to suit your purpose would be a good reason to buy another similar body. I can say the same of a journalist using his or her cameras to document different events.
We are all different and we think differently and act differently for that matter. In my particular case I have nothing against exchanging lenses when needed on any of my bodies, all different but in general I try to select according to my subject a lens, usually a zoom that will solve the majority of the shots I need without exchanging lenses.
Just some thoughts.

Guys/Gals, have you ever experienced a situation or situations whereby you had wished for an extra camera body which is or will be the same as the ones that you already have ~ so that when you want to take photos with a different particular lens, you won't have to remove lenses that are already mounted upon the camera bodies that you currently/already have ~ such as lenses already mounted upon them that are of a different focal length ? Well, if you have, perhaps, you won't think of me as being totally nuts when I have temptations to purchase another, identical camera body ! :D

Although my current Nikon camera body arsenal consists of a D800e and a D810, serious considerations are now being given to purchasing another D810 body whereas when I want to place a particular lens upon it, there will be no need to remove lenses that are already mounted upon either of my existing bodies; namely, the D800e or the D810..

It's not that I am lazy nor is it because there is money to burn, but I'm thinking that constantly removing a lens from a body isn't always the best option at hand ~ due to the possibility of dust entering into the body or contaminating it's sensor and it surely would be more convenient to just grab another body and place the lens of choice upon it, especially, if the other camera bodies and the lenses mounted upon them will need to be immediately used too ;-)

Comments ? AND, please don't be shy ! 8-)

Best Regards ~ as always,
~Doug~

Perhaps turning the question around might help. What is it about your current camera that isn't meeting your needs?

You say you want to go full frame. Why is that? Are you going to be printing large poster-sized images?

Even though cameras today are purposed-specific computers, I don't find their technology ages quite the same way does a laptop or tablet in which the software they run updates and makes the hardware obsolete.

(I have in my closet a Minolta SRT-101 that I used in college 40 years ago. If I wanted to return to film, I think that camera and its lenses would still be as good now as they were then).