Most of us are responsible of babying our digital camera gear sooner or later. We wish it to look pristine from day one till the day we die (or promote it). However digital camera gear – and cameras specifically – are made for use. They’re designed and constructed to have the ability to deal with the rigours of no matter each day working life can throw at them, at the least when you get previous a sure value level.Arri not too long ago posted a video displaying off a part of their sturdiness testing course of for his or her shiny new Arri Alexa 35 – which seems like an absolute beast providing an unimaginable 17 stops of dynamic vary. However once you’re paying $65K for the physique alone, you’d count on it to be fairly good.Whereas most of us are capturing cameras that fall effectively underneath an Arri finances, all digital camera producers put their gear by way of assessments like this. They might not all stand as much as fairly the identical abuse as an Arri Alexa 35, however most of them don’t actually see that degree of abuse, both. Seeing how Arri assessments the sturdiness of their cameras, although, with machines that may plug issues in and pull them again out once more hundreds of occasions – even on the funky angles we frequently discover ourselves utilizing – offers some indication as to how different producers may check theirs.Arri’s video exhibits a lot of assessments, together with these previous classics “Whack it with a hammer” and “Earthquake simulator” in addition to taking it from a -20° deep freeze as much as a balmy 45°C. It will be fascinating to see comparable movies from the likes of Nikon, Canon, Sony, Fuji, Panasonic, and so on. protecting precisely how they go about testing the sturdiness of their digital camera gear. Certain, we’ve seen some unbiased assessments on numerous issues, like their water repelling talents, however nothing actually from the producers themselves.Many people who’ve been capturing for a few many years do have a fairly good concept of what our cameras can deal with, however it could nonetheless be good to see how producers put them to the check, particularly notably delicate components like reminiscence card doorways, HDMI sockets and – for people who use them – the popup flash locking mechanisms that hold them shut and out the way in which.And yeah, okay, digital camera producers do inform us the bounds of sure cameras, just like the minimal and most working temperatures, which cameras are higher suited to extra excessive situations, shutter life expectancy, and so on. however they don’t actually present us how they recognized the place these limits are.