Compatibility

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My honest advice is to get that 50mm sigma and put it on the canon and go shoot

My second bit of advice is to consider sinking your $1500 into lenses and maybe even lighting before even thinking about the camera body upgrade at this stage. Yes a better body brings with it advances, but its only going to be as good as the light you have to work with - the glass that reflects the light into the camera and the person behind it - those three areas will generally net you a much bigger improvement in overall quality than upgrading the body alone (and if you put a good body behind poor quality glass you'll get poor results still).


So first up work out what your key interest areas are - what do you want to/like to shoot; what situations and conditions, what subjects etc.... This is all about putting your criteria on the table and its what you need to do to measure the options on the market; otherwise you are just chasing after spec numbers with no direct gain to your areas of interest.

Once you've got your areas of interest you can better decide if better lighting or lenses might well be something to consider before even thinking about the body. It also allows you to plan ahead - to work out what gear you might want to get at a later date (important as you may find that canon or nikon has some ideal gear that the other company does not have for your interest areas).