Rugged camera question.
May 4, 2022 08:05:41 #
gvarner wrote:
A few years ago I stepped off of a park bench, my right leg collapsed and I fell backwards. Landed on my back on my D7200 and 18-200 Nikon zoom. No damage to camera or lens but my back was sore for months. Can I do that with a mirrorless?
I bet you can find ways to fall without any camera. But the wider flange mount of a Z would probably be easier on your back, spreading the impact zone across a greater area.
May 4, 2022 09:15:06 #
gvarner wrote:
A few years ago I stepped off of a park bench, my right leg collapsed and I fell backwards. Landed on my back on my D7200 and 18-200 Nikon zoom. No damage to camera or lens but my back was sore for months. Can I do that with a mirrorless?
You simply got lucky. No camera can take impact. In fact, impact damage is what keeps camera repair shops open. Count your lucky stars.....
May 4, 2022 09:57:29 #
Stepped off a broken sidewalk in Australia once and all the way down it was “save the cameras!“ They we’re an F1n Canon and a 990 Nikon Swiveling Brick so that dates the trip.
I healed but still have a smal scar. The cameras were fine.
I healed but still have a smal scar. The cameras were fine.
May 4, 2022 10:17:35 #
PeteWeez
Loc: LSD
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?
May 4, 2022 10:39:56 #
Pro level Nikon’s are the toughest cameras on the market, they are designed to get the image first and foremost. Two quickies: my FE-2 (1982) fell down some steps in an old mosque in Pakistan, never missed a beat.
Two weeks ago I slipped and fell on concrete , my D700 free fell a good 3’ onto asphalt, no problem!
Two weeks ago I slipped and fell on concrete , my D700 free fell a good 3’ onto asphalt, no problem!
May 4, 2022 11:20:26 #
I was at a very reputable camera store yesterday and talking to a salesperson. I related that I dropped my D500 a few years ago, did extensive damage but that it still works well. He advised that were I to drop my Z6 in the same fashion that it would likely not survive as well as the D500.
May 4, 2022 11:55:49 #
gvarner wrote:
A few years ago I stepped off of a park bench, my right leg collapsed and I fell backwards. Landed on my back on my D7200 and 18-200 Nikon zoom. No damage to camera or lens but my back was sore for months. Can I do that with a mirrorless?
Yes, and your back won’t hurt as much because the mirrorless camera is smaller.
May 4, 2022 12:00:39 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
gvarner wrote:
A few years ago I stepped off of a park bench, my right leg collapsed and I fell backwards. Landed on my back on my D7200 and 18-200 Nikon zoom. No damage to camera or lens but my back was sore for months. Can I do that with a mirrorless?
Why would you want to do it?
May 4, 2022 12:00:40 #
gvarner wrote:
A few years ago I stepped off of a park bench, my right leg collapsed and I fell backwards. Landed on my back on my D7200 and 18-200 Nikon zoom. No damage to camera or lens but my back was sore for months. Can I do that with a mirrorless?
As a paramedic for 40 years... I highly suggest you sacrifice the camera. Repetitive injuries on backs and joints don't do well later on. The arthritis can be as bad or worse than the original insult. I know of what I speak after lifting thousands of patients. PS... loved my old 18-200 lens. Sold it years ago to a friend and its still in use.
May 4, 2022 12:01:11 #
gvarner wrote:
A few years ago I stepped off of a park bench, my right leg collapsed and I fell backwards. Landed on my back on my D7200 and 18-200 Nikon zoom. No damage to camera or lens but my back was sore for months. Can I do that with a mirrorless?
Yes. You can fall onto any flagship camera and hurt your back. But like everything in photography, “it depends” on where the camera is when you fall on it, and what surface it’s on.
May 4, 2022 12:25:28 #
May 4, 2022 12:40:28 #
StanMac wrote:
I would suggest that your back probably would fare a lot worse the second time around.
Stan
Stan
First time with a mirrorless instead might have been easier on your back but a puppy on a leash would have been better yet.May 4, 2022 13:48:25 #
gvarner wrote:
A few years ago I stepped off of a park bench, my right leg collapsed and I fell backwards. Landed on my back on my D7200 and 18-200 Nikon zoom. No damage to camera or lens but my back was sore for months. Can I do that with a mirrorless?
Lol. I am a mostly retired chiropractor. I can take your picture and fix your back at the same time.
May 4, 2022 14:05:45 #
May 4, 2022 14:27:54 #
gvarner wrote:
A few years ago I stepped off of a park bench, my right leg collapsed and I fell backwards. Landed on my back on my D7200 and 18-200 Nikon zoom. No damage to camera or lens but my back was sore for months. Can I do that with a mirrorless?
Are you asking for someone here who owns a mirrorless to give it a try?
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