Who Says Rebels Aren’t Built Tough?
December 15th, 2009 Posted in Fun Stuff
Skydiving without a shoot….
A Canon EOS Rebel XT and all its plastic glory took to the skies and fell a long long way back to earth. The Rebel XT in question has lived to snap again.
The EOS-1 has nothing on this badboy
Read more about this cool story at the FredMiranda forums.
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/845602
You have pics of your beaten and bruised Canon that is still snapping?
Send em to me at buzz@canonrumors.com
….. it could be worth a t-shirt.
thanks fenner
cr
December 15th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
That’s not an XTi, for the record. It’s something older.
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Canon Rumors Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Thanks… typo… it’s an XT.
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December 15th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I say Rebels aren’t tough ! NIKON ALL THE WAY AND I DON’T CARE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME !
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Mr. T Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
shut up
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Fred Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Make me :)
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Mr. T Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
ZIP* lol
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Fred Reply:
December 17th, 2009 at 10:46 am
Exactly. That is what I thought.
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December 15th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Viral marketing? anyone?
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December 15th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
my digital rebel (300d) wouldn`t survive this.
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December 15th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
I´m more impressed by the fact that they actually found the thing after the drop.
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December 15th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I love the comment where it says the UV filter saved it
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December 15th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Be right back. I’m going to throw my 450D out the window.
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December 15th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
On the converse side:
http://www.juzaphoto.com/eng/articles-nature/travel_photo_notes_from_the_world.htm
“My friend Simone has not had better luck: his Nikon D3 developed various problem, and three lenses got stuck and heavily fogged… In conclusion, this experience has taught me that weather sealing sometimes helps (as with the 24-105), but in heavy rain it is not a guarantee, even with the best sealing as those used on 1DsIII and D3. From now I’ll no longer thrust the weather sealing – I’ll simply protect the camera with a transparent plastic bag, that is light years better than any weather sealing.”
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December 15th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
I doubt even an EOS-1 body could survive such a drop…
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Gusto Reply:
December 15th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
There is this thing called luck.
Any camera that lands on soft soil (borne out by the pieces of grass on the camera body) will survive.
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Jacobin Ve Lardina Saccun Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Ah… but that doesn’t mean that the Rebels are tough!
Then again, if you hit WATER at high velocity you will die. Won’t dropping a camera out of a plane, even onto SOFT soil, destroy it?
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kubelik Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 11:52 am
yeah, I’m not so sure about the any camera landing on soft soil will survive part…
I do think the rebel just got lucky. even the handicam is in fairly good shape considering the 3000ft fall … clearly none of them landed on pavement.
I remember tossing a sony discman off the roof in middle school onto the sidewalk, I don’t think I could have found that many large pieces of it afterwards
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kubelik Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 11:54 am
have also dropped my G9 from a picture taking position about 6′ off the ground onto the stone surface of the great wall of china.
scared the hell out of me, but all it got was a slight dent in the exterior bodywork. still shooting fine, 10000 shots later.
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Andrew Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Dents are like scars.
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rsm870 Reply:
February 19th, 2010 at 6:45 am
perhpas its cus a 1D is way way heavier… it might even shatter upon hitting the ground :P
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December 16th, 2009 at 2:30 am
It was probably the UV filter that saved it . . .
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Jacobin Ve Lardina Saccun Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 9:59 am
How the heck would a UV filtre save it?
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Nick Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Sarcasm fail.
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kubelik Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
+1
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Jacobin Ve Lardina Saccun Reply:
December 20th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Every false theory needs to have a plausible explanation!
If I said “I can fly”, that would not be sarcasm – that would be stupidity.
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Jacobin Ve Lardina Saccun Reply:
December 20th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Every false theory needs to have a plausible explanation!
If I said “I can fly”, that would not be sarcasm – that would be stupidity.
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December 16th, 2009 at 11:40 am
So the Rebel is tough, that’s good. But is it possible to buy it with the Sony anti-dirt coating? There is not even dirt inside the cracked Sony!
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December 16th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
I’m still trying to get what type of ID10T drops his/her SLR out of a plane…
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December 18th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Just for your information, the camera landed in MUD which means it didn’t break, the other DID NOT land in MUD which did result in what you can see, so get your facts right next time. Even though this is a rumour site, facts remain facts, fiction is the opposite.
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