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My GFs house has a roughly 4x5 double gliding window. After heavy rain there would be standing water in the window tracks. So, I looked up how to solve the problem and found a video showing how to clean the weep holes. It was an easy job and water seems to drain much better now.

Her house is kind of old and basic maintenance items like that have gone unaddressed as long as she's live there.

Are there other relatively DIY friendly maintenance items I could look for and do for her?

Hello and good morning.

I want to upgrade to a mirrorless system, and I'm pretty sure I want the RF 200-800 lens because I want to do plane spotting (30,000+ ft altitude as well as planes coming and going to the nearby airport), small bird photography at distance, and moon photography. This lens seems like a really attractive option for all of these use cases.

My question is do yall think the R7 would be overkill? It's aps-c so it has that 1.6x crop factor, and it's also high resolution at 32.5 MP with tiny 3.2 micrometer pixels. This means at 800mm it has a field of view of 1.6x1.06 degrees and a really fine sampling rate of 0.83 arc seconds per pixel.

All that has me wondering if hand holding that camera and lens combo is even possible. Even with IS in the lens and on the sensor, would I be able to get good shots without a tripod or monopod? I would absolutely use a tripod for moon photography, but would it be required for the other subjects I'm interested in?

Also, a sampling rate that fine will require a steady atmosphere. I would think that any shimmer or haze would be apparent with this sensor, but maybe I am wrong. I guess I could always downsample in post processing?

Finally, at 800 mm that lens is at f9, and I'm not sure how the R7 will perform with that in low light situations, because I may take the rig out in the very early morning or late afternoon. Again, maybe the noise could be well corrected in post processing.

The alternatives I've considered are a used R6 which has much larger pixels and is full frame, so it would be much more forgiving. Or, I could wait and save up some more money for a used R6 mark II, which would be bit more resolution that the R6, but not nearly as demanding as the R7.

Thanks for taking the time to read my long winded post!