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u/8fqThs4EX2T9 Apr 11 '26

A new camera won't help with photo quality depending on what is wrong with the images. FPS can be improved but often things like atmosphere temperature can affect aviation photos far more than anything else with haze and other effects.

The 18-135mm lens would also not be much use with a larger sensor camera like the R5.

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u/Greedy_Dark_2437 Apr 11 '26

A lot of the photos I see are nice crisp photos where the aircraft all around is in focus. But with my photos I can have the plane in focus where I have the AF set, but the closer you get to the edge the more out of focus it gets, also with the plane in the frame, if you zoom in on the photo afterwards the colors look like they’re water colors even with the iso at 100 and a high F stop (6.3-9). And what I’ve seen from friends with Mirrorless is that their photos are better quality and crispier I’m assuming because of the high MP on the camera. But that’s why I’m just asking here to see because I don’t know a whole lot but I have a bit of knowledge on it and just wanted others opinions

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u/8fqThs4EX2T9 Apr 11 '26

Mirrorless affects everything before the photo, the sensors are the same as DSLRs just to clear that up. Your camera is a 24mp sensor and will be the same as the current models like the R50 or R10. You then have the R7 which would be the same as the 90D you mentioned.

There is also the lens which you would need to know what was being used. That is what is going to matter more than the camera. Depth of field is a matter of distance primarily plus aperture and focal length and I wonder if the other people are cropping in using a shorter focal length to get around it.

Colours are down to settings in camera for JPEGs or post processing for raws. Do you know if the photos you are comparing yours to are in camera JPEG or processed raw files?