sambarino wrote in post #14719808
The 60D is a great camera. If the 7D has features you want/need buy it. Life is short. If the 7D2/70D comes out in a year and you want/need that, buy it. Life is short. If you can afford to upgrade, do it. Life is short.
I agree with the sentiment here.
However, note that if you find yourself upgrading a lot, that may be an indication that you aren't truly happy with what you're getting, and so you might want to take a step back and think hard about what you really want out of your camera gear.
For instance, I found myself upgrading bodies because Canon didn't really make the camera I wanted, until they introduced the 7D. It's at this point that I'm finding myself more and more inclined to stick with the 7D than to upgrade (I could afford to upgrade to the 5Dmk3, for instance, but in reality, what would I really gain from it?). The only real blemish on the 7D is the vertical banding it exhibits in the deep shadows at low ISOs, but the 5D3 apparently has the same problem. It would be nice if the low/base ISO images were a little cleaner, but they clean up nicely in postprocessing and they don't seem to be much different from what I've seen the 5D2 produce at low ISO when put side to side (the 7D is slightly worse, as you'd expect, but only slightly).
For quite some time, I thought I'd want full frame. I'm no longer convinced it would be much of a difference for me. At some point, I'll probably rent a 5D3 just to see if full frame with competent autofocus is compelling to me, but my suspicion is that it won't be.
The bottom line is that you need to figure out what you really want and just go with that. If it winds up being what you really want, you'll suddenly find that you're no longer really tempted to upgrade at all.
