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  • If you are shooting exclusively with RF bodies and you need the weight savings from not carrying EF glass, then by all means sell your EF glass whilst it’s still worth a fair bit (especially the L glass).

    If you are shooting a mix of RF and EF bodies (even if you just keep an EF body as a backup in case your RF body dies a sad death on a shoot), then you need to keep at least a couple of EF lenses around to use with it. No point having a backup body with no glass to use on it.

    If you have EF lenses for which there isn’t a viable RF replacement (and ‘viable’ might simply mean ‘I can’t afford it yet’), then keep your EF glass and use it with an adapter.

    I shoot mostly with an RF body, but I still have my 6D2 and 90D bodies, and I still use them for some scenarios where their attributes are beneficial to me. The APS-C, for example, gives me a useful crop factor for daylight aviation photography (air shows etc.), and I still find I get better results with a true optical viewfinder than an EVF, even as good as they are these days.


  • Honestly, not really. I photograph air shows, and over a busy weekend I can easily hit around 5k shots. But even with half a dozen shows over the summer months, that’s still ‘only’ 30k actuations. Which means a camera rated for 300k actuations would be expected to last for 10 years.

    In reality, it’ll be less of course, because it doesn’t just sit in a cupboard for the other 9 months of the year; I photograph other events too, but those are at most 1k shots per weekend rather than 5k.

    Even taking all that into account, the reality is that my oldest camera is a 6D Mk2, released in mid-2017. So it’s at most 6 years old (and more likely about 5, because I’m rarely an early adopter). Both my other 2 DSLRs and mirrorless bodies are considerably newer.

    tl;dr - I’m almost certainly going to upgrade/replace the camera due to age and availability of shiny new tech before it hits its shutter count.