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csd2020 wrote:
Actually it's quite a bit better than consumer-level. You may have missed this:
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/11/cracking-open-the-7d-ii
Your link is regarding weather sealing, connections, circuitry, etc. which are no doubt more than acceptable.
It's still a consumer-level base build. It relies on a plastic under body with non-structural metal plating over top, which is not the same as a full magnesium body. The lens mount and sensor assembly still screws into the plastic mirror box. It does not use a full magnesium frame, with the lens mount attached to metal, like the Canon 1-series, or D300/D700/D8XX/D3/D4 series cameras. Once you hit the 1-series, you get a bump up in general build quality.
Canon understandably likes to show all their press photos with the metal plating on, which is rather misleading.
There are of course debates on what is stronger, metal or plastic, etc. but the 7D2 is not built like a 1-series (nor is the 5DM3 or 5DS/R). The D300/D700/D8XX bodies are built mostly like a D3/D4 or Canon 1-series, just smaller. To be very clear I am not saying the 7D2 is built poorly or inadequately, but there is a significant difference in build, and it does not share the general build quality of the 1-series in the same way the D300/D700/D8XX shares the D3/D4 build.
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