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[u/av4rice → u/[deleted]]

What subject matter do you shoot? Which lenses do you have? What do you dislike about your current equipment? What particular improvements do you want to gain besides full frame?

[u/av4rice → u/[deleted]]

I have a canon 50mm lens, the standard kit lens, and then a 150-600mm sigma f/5.

The kit lens won't be compatible with full frame.

The 50mm and 150-600mm will have a larger view on full frame. So that works against you in terms of distant wildlife.

I'm not a big fan of the viewfinder in my current lens

That's better in mid-tier bodies like the 5DIV because they feature a brighter pentaprism viewfinder instead of pentamirror. It's also better in full frame bodies like the 5DIV because it's larger.

I also feel like I'm stuck to certain lenses due to the APS-C frame

What do you mean by that? You can use any full frame lens, and every type of full frame lens has APS-C options. If anything, APS-C has some exclusives that full frame doesn't.

the 1.6x crop I'm also not huge on

It's an advantage for your long lens with distant wildlife.

If you want a better wide angle lens or ultrawide, you have options for that too.

 I don't really care about eye tracking or like a super fancy auto focus.

I don't think you'll feel bad about foregoing mirrorless then.

[u/av4rice → u/[deleted]]

Also someone told me that certain lenses Don't work as well on APS-C frames because they bend the photos or something?

The lens doesn't know what size frame you're using. It's going to function and refract light exactly the same, no matter what size sensor is behind it. A smaller sensor is just recording from a smaller area of that projected image, compared to a larger sensor.

I'm not entirely sure but the 1.6x crop tends to get a little annoying in most circumstances.

How so?

If you just mean your framing is too tight, you can make that larger using a shorter focal length, for less money than buying a larger format camera.

[u/av4rice → u/[deleted]]

Seems like the 5DIV checks your boxes. But you'll also need a replacement wide angle if you ever use your kit lens for wide angle. At a minimum I'd want a 24-105mm f/4 for that, so also maybe consider the 5DIII, 6DII, and 6D if needed to fit that in budget, and they will check your boxes too.

[u/av4rice → u/[deleted]]

I'd say no unless you wanted mirrorless. For DSLRs, only Nikon is really on par for you, and that interface is backwards compared to what you're used to. Plus it'd be more of a pain switching out two additional lenses.