It feels like it will break if it accidentally brushes against you slightly, and that's exactly what happened - the piece that connects the screw top to the hot shoe mount broke on my second outing

The only flaw I see is that the mount to the hot shoe of the camera is made of plastic

However, the hot shoe mount comes loose at times and the microphone falls from the camera

I was shooting with the camcorder and Rode on a handheld stabilization rig with the Rode about 6" from the camera and mounted on a cold shoe on the DV Multirig.

Damn hot shoe always breaks off

The area just above the hot shoe and just below the actual mount came loose and is getting dangerously close to breaking

But the hot shoe mount and basically everything else is made of a very cheap plastic

Damn hot shoe always breaks off

When I tightened the screw mount down on the hot shoe so it's secure to the camera, the mic wobbled where the hot shoe mount meets the mic housing

Rode stepped up and shipped me a full new suspension/hot shoe mount

This is not a robust product, this is not a well designed or engineered product, and others have commented that various parts easily break away such as the shoe when you exert too much pressure accidentally and now that I've seen how cheap the plastic is I don't want to take the chance of flushing $250 down the toilet on this product.

It comes with a hot-shoe mount that easily fits on my Canon 60D and would assume any similar camera hot-shoe

the mic broke off the the hot shoe

the mic broke off the the hot shoe