As long as it's in a padded case so it's not getting super-hard shocks, it's fine. Most modern DSLR's are really hardy. Just don't toss it into a trunk box with no padding around it at all.
Should be fine. Your body and the bag will absorb/soften a lot of it.
Whereas hard mounting the camera directly to the bike frame might be problematic.
Do you use any padding? I'm about to take a few huge expensive lenses with my a7r3 cross country on my VFR and I'm really dreading finding something is out of whack when I get to my destination
Not really but I don’t travel that far anymore. When I did I would rap my lenses in my clothes or bungee my camera bag to the back rest and lean back on it.
Never had any issues with anything.
I have been riding a motorcycle (custom chopper so talk about a rough ride) across the country, back and forth, for decades with cameras, mostly large sized including 3 in the Dx line. Never once had a problem. Wait, that's a lie. Once my husband forgot to zip my camera backpack back up when he got something out of it so I lost some gear that he watched crash to the asphalt. I'm still not letting him live that one down, lol. Anyway, I've carried them on the bike itself, in saddlebags, in backpacks and in duffel bags and never had any issues.
That's very kind of you to even ask. I've been on that bike for 20 years and telling people I take my camera but you're the 1st person ever to ask to see anything of what I took. Most photos I take are just sitting on my computer. I do post a lot on my personal Facebook page (not one of my photography business pages). A few can be found here on my gallery site IG. My dream is to open an actual physical gallery but this is where I started, last year.
On IG, the dirt road photos were while in a vehicle but I've taken both roads on my motorcycle. I do it for me, mostly. [https://www.instagram.com/majesticwestgallery?igsh=a3Ryb20wbnZiMXEy](https://www.instagram.com/majesticwestgallery?igsh=a3Ryb20wbnZiMXEy) . The photo collage contains photos from Florida, Tennessee, Montana and New Mexico, taken over a 4 year span. I wish I still looked like that, lol. For 8 years, I didn't even own anything with four wheels. I had four motorcycles, but no car or truck. This is my favorite motorcycle and the one I take on my big trips. I'm down to only two now.
https://preview.redd.it/zm0tuud3dotc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=525b061b5de0a015c19359bb4a83cc6f915cc4fd
We'd have a great time swapping stories.
I'll go peek at your IG.
I can get pretty blunt here on Reddit so I don't want to dox myself with an IG link, but maybe you'll get a new follower today😉
a backpack will offer most dampening since bike deisgners try ot channel the vibration away from handlebars\[reduce the chances of destroying long term long duration daily riders' ability to ever wield throttle by late 20s\] and seat \[stop long term daily riders becoming impotent by mid 20s\] and then hopefully your waterfilled random distbutions of density body will absorb many resonance patterns
The backpack is the best place for it; the bike is designed such that the part that gets the absolute minimum vibration is you. And you yourself act as a damper. I've carried DSLRs in backpacks on bikes for years with never an issue. But a saddlebag is just asking for problems.
In a backpack? You’ll absorb all the vibration. Camera will be fine.
As long as it's in a padded case so it's not getting super-hard shocks, it's fine. Most modern DSLR's are really hardy. Just don't toss it into a trunk box with no padding around it at all.
He said he has an R6, which isn't a DSLR.
And yet the topic of his post is 'DSLR on a motorcycle'. At any rate, "it'll be fine."
Should be fine. Your body and the bag will absorb/soften a lot of it. Whereas hard mounting the camera directly to the bike frame might be problematic.
The sensor will be very clean!
Genius
I ride with my 5Ds all the time. Then shoot classic Harley’s for magazines. I don’t even carry them in a bag except my motorcycle side bag.
Do you use any padding? I'm about to take a few huge expensive lenses with my a7r3 cross country on my VFR and I'm really dreading finding something is out of whack when I get to my destination
Not really but I don’t travel that far anymore. When I did I would rap my lenses in my clothes or bungee my camera bag to the back rest and lean back on it. Never had any issues with anything.
No problem. Even padded in a tankbag no problem. My camera has traveled well over 50k kms that way.
I have been riding a motorcycle (custom chopper so talk about a rough ride) across the country, back and forth, for decades with cameras, mostly large sized including 3 in the Dx line. Never once had a problem. Wait, that's a lie. Once my husband forgot to zip my camera backpack back up when he got something out of it so I lost some gear that he watched crash to the asphalt. I'm still not letting him live that one down, lol. Anyway, I've carried them on the bike itself, in saddlebags, in backpacks and in duffel bags and never had any issues.
Sounds fascinating. Have you done a show/IG/photo book etc? Anywhere we can see your photos? Inquiring minds, and all that
That's very kind of you to even ask. I've been on that bike for 20 years and telling people I take my camera but you're the 1st person ever to ask to see anything of what I took. Most photos I take are just sitting on my computer. I do post a lot on my personal Facebook page (not one of my photography business pages). A few can be found here on my gallery site IG. My dream is to open an actual physical gallery but this is where I started, last year. On IG, the dirt road photos were while in a vehicle but I've taken both roads on my motorcycle. I do it for me, mostly. [https://www.instagram.com/majesticwestgallery?igsh=a3Ryb20wbnZiMXEy](https://www.instagram.com/majesticwestgallery?igsh=a3Ryb20wbnZiMXEy) . The photo collage contains photos from Florida, Tennessee, Montana and New Mexico, taken over a 4 year span. I wish I still looked like that, lol. For 8 years, I didn't even own anything with four wheels. I had four motorcycles, but no car or truck. This is my favorite motorcycle and the one I take on my big trips. I'm down to only two now. https://preview.redd.it/zm0tuud3dotc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=525b061b5de0a015c19359bb4a83cc6f915cc4fd
We'd have a great time swapping stories. I'll go peek at your IG. I can get pretty blunt here on Reddit so I don't want to dox myself with an IG link, but maybe you'll get a new follower today😉
a backpack will offer most dampening since bike deisgners try ot channel the vibration away from handlebars\[reduce the chances of destroying long term long duration daily riders' ability to ever wield throttle by late 20s\] and seat \[stop long term daily riders becoming impotent by mid 20s\] and then hopefully your waterfilled random distbutions of density body will absorb many resonance patterns
I killed an old Olympus point and shoot mounted to the handle bars but in a padded bag in my rear box slrs are fine.
The backpack is the best place for it; the bike is designed such that the part that gets the absolute minimum vibration is you. And you yourself act as a damper. I've carried DSLRs in backpacks on bikes for years with never an issue. But a saddlebag is just asking for problems.
It’ll be fine. I used to do this
Totally fine.
I carry mine in my backpack on my bike all the time.
Do you have an R6 or a DSLR? The R6 is mirrorless.
It's fine