mikeroetex Loc: Lafayette, LA

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My question is, “Why would you expect them to be any less rugged, just because they took an internal part (the mirror) out? If you want to claim Nikon has shifted to cheaper housing material that might be one thing, but just how “rugged” do you think the D3000 and D5000 lines are?
P.S. The Z6 housing is made from magnesium alloy… sound familiar?

tdozier3 Loc: Northern Illinois

D7200 is magnesium alloy

brooklyn-camera I Loc: Brooklyn, NY

I have a 7DMKII and was blindsided while should semi-pro football in Brooklyn, NY. I had a SIGMA 70-200 f/2.8 attached and the only damage was that the 70-200 was broke in half. Body of the 7DMKII had nothing broken, bent or scratched. So I can only talk about the 7DMKII, very happy that the body took a beating and keeps on ticking!

kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

When people talk about a camera taking an impact and surviving, it's necessary to consider that not all impacts are equal. It depends on so many factors, including the height, the weight of the package, the surface it falls on and what part makes contact. A broken lens and intact body indicates that the lens impacted first and absorbed the energy of the fall. If the body had hit first it could have destroyed the body with no damage to the lens.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

1. The D7200 has a composite body, not titanium.
2. Any camera (mirror or mirrorless) that you end up landing on may be damaged regardless if they are made out of titanium.

larryepage Loc: North Texas area

I checked Nikon's website. It is actually magnesium alloy. I thought it was plastic, like the D90. Composite has replaced metal alloy in upper-tier models since wi-fi and Bluetooth have become standard. Plastic is still standard on entry-level Nikons.

wmurnahan Loc: Bloomington IN

For starters, mirrorless have no moving mirror, so right away they are more rugged than a DSLR.

Spirit Vision Photography Loc: Behind a Camera.

I seriously doubt that it is as rugged as the F3.

BebuLamar

Any camera would be a fragile device and should be handled with great care.

BushDog Loc: San Antonio, TX

The following is just my experience … leading me to believe that mirrorless cameras may not be as tough as DSLR’s. And this includes lenses for each. I still love my mirrorless though and use them 98% of the time. I’m now a bit more careful.

I’ve had four major drops, each of them being from about waist high. Two were with Canon DSLRs; two with Sony Mirrorless.

The DSLR drops, if I remember correctly, were with a Canon 5D Mark III body and 24-70L f/2.8 on one fall, damaging only the lens hood which absorbed most of the impact. The other was with with a Canon 7D Mark II with the same lens. There was no damage on this fall to either the body or the lens.

One Mirrorless fall was with a Sony a7Riii but can’t remember which lens. The lens was not damaged; the camera was. I immediately ordered another Sony a7Riii and sent the damaged body in for repairs which cost a couple of hundred dollars. I still have both of those a7Riii bodies. In my opinion, amazing cameras. I’ve since added an a7Riv but often still use the iii bodies.

The other Mirrorless fall was with a Sony a9 body with the 100-400 GM lens. The body had some damage but was still functional. I sold it at a heavy discount to a fellow photographer. I have now replaced the a9 with an a1. I immediately ordered another (IMHO, amazing) 100-400 GM lens. I sent the broken one in for repair at a cost of somewhere around $1,000. I sold the repaired lens to another fellow photographer at a heavy discount. She took that lens on an African photo safari and has been using it for several years.

Nicholas J DeSciose

Where did you get all of this useless information. The new cameras are superior in every way.

PeteWeez Loc: LSD

Update: The X-T4 is a mirrorless.

Last weekend I stepped off a rounded curb in Arlington Nat. Cem. and next thing I knew I was flat out on the street. Street was very, very rough rock concrete. Had my brand new Fuji X-T4 on my chest. Gouged out metal on the flash platform, white balance dial and front rim around the lens. Big bone bruise on my chest where camera was. After bandaging up, we looked at the camera which was now taking very odd brownish images. No color. Oh-oh. 2 days later I discovered that the camera had changed to a sepia image mode when it hit the road. Changed back to std mode and everything seems back to normal. Whew! Point is, this seems to be one tough camera. Any plastic parts on outside probably would not have fared so well. Why would a modern camera have a sepia mode?

mikegreenwald Loc: Illinois

I've owned probably more than three dozen cameras over my 75 years of shooting (I'm 86). I've never had a camera nor lens break mechanically, and most have suffered from abuse of some sort.
However more than a few years ago I was caught in a hailstorm high in the Rockies, carrying a 6008 series Rolliflex. Both camera and lens were water damaged to the point that the technicians said it would be cheaper to replace them than to repair. I still have the damaged cameras and the replacements, mostly as a reminder to carry water protection for my gear.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

My bad. It’s a magnesium alloy.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

Correction: the D7200 has a magnesium alloy body, not titanium.