The Batis 85 is beautiful glass from all accounts ! As for the A 7 A 7 ii upgrade , I ' m pretty sure they are both using the same sensor . Word is that Sony improved on the sensor stack glass with improved AR coating , which makes it a tad better in low lightnight shooting but that ' s about it . IBIS was the huge thing that caused many to upgrade . It ' s definitely handy if you ' re doing a lot of handheld stuff like travel , weddingevents . Sony also retooled the A 7 ii lens mount to be more robust when using the heavier lenses like the 24702 . 8 and 702002 . 8 . As for the A 7 A 7 R comparison . I found the first A 7 R to be a slow camera , and I used it almost as I would use a medium format camera . Sony made a small gaffe by choking the data bus from the sensor to the SD card , so you ' ll have to contend with a small buffer and slow write speeds . Even in the A 7 Rii , the write speeds are slow USB 2 . 0 speeds IIRC and Sony should ' ve been beefed it up especially since you ' re giving the option of shooting 42 MP uncompressed RAWs . This is something you might want to test out on hand if you do a lot of burst shooting in eventsportraiture . I ' ll be happy to give it a test over the weekend if you want . This might be a play by Sony to feature dualcard slots and faster writes in the A 9 or A 7 R 3 pure speculation on my part ! . I was happy with the A 7 R , but it couldn ' t be the last camera I ' ll buy for the next 3 years because of the shutter shock issues , lack of IBIS and slow AF performance . The A 7 Rii is a much , much better camera and IMHO , worth the price to upgrade . IBIS , a better sensor both in DR and resolution , onchip PDAF . It will perform for everything except for sports and endurance , both of which DSLRs are still king . My only complaint is the low battery life , but it ' s a technological limitation with mirrorless and Wasabi Power batteries are cheap and reliable . I ' m not sure where the prices are for used A 7 , A 7 ii and A 7 R in your neighbourhood , but getting nice glass and buying the cheaper body is always a wise decision even more so since newer bodies are around the corner . My belief is that at $ 600 , there ' s less room for the A 7 ' s price to fall considering it ' s a FF mirrorless and when newer models come out , it might bottomout at maybe $ 500 or $ 450 . The A 7 ii and similarly , the A 7 R will face a more drastic price drop since it has more room to depreciate , say $ 1200 to $ 1000900 . So financially , if you get an A 7 to tide you over , you only take a loss of $ 100150 when you upgrade , as compared to $ 200300 in the case of the A 7 ii . I wouldn ' t buy the A 7 R because I feel you ' re paying even more money just for an extra 12 MP . Might as well go all out and settle on the A 7 R 2 and not have to worry about any flaws or upgradeitch . In conclusion haha , this is what I would do . Do you absolutely have to upgrade now ? If yes . Get the OG A 7 , with nice glass . If you ' re getting the Batis , it has Image Stabilization , so the the lack of IBIS in the A 7 is ameliorated . Then wait for the new bodies to arrive and reevaluate . You can then choose to sell off the A 7 and put the proceeds into a hopefully discounted A 7 R 2 , or even get the new A 7 R 3 A 9 if it has the one killer feature that you need . If you were making this decision at the beginning of the year , I would ' ve suggested getting the A 7 R 2 straight on , but now , with an imminent refreshrelease , it would make more financial sense to wait and see how prices change in the coming few months . If you can stave off GAS and wait a couple of months . Get the Batis now and go to town with it on your A 6000 . Keep yourself busy and do lots of portrait headshots in an attempt to silence the siren song of GAS . Once the new bodies are released , you can pick up the A 7 R 2 for a hopefully ! lower price , as well as save yourself the trouble to flipping an interimcamera body . What do you think ?