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.
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 [email protected]
….. it could be worth a t-shirt.
thanks fenner
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That’s not an XTi, for the record. It’s something older.
I say Rebels aren’t tough ! NIKON ALL THE WAY AND I DON’T CARE WHO DISAGREES WITH ME !
Thanks… typo… it’s an XT.
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my digital rebel (300d) wouldn`t survive this.
I´m more impressed by the fact that they actually found the thing after the drop.
I love the comment where it says the UV filter saved it
Be right back. I’m going to throw my 450D out the window.
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.”
I doubt even an EOS-1 body could survive such a drop…
shut up
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.
It was probably the UV filter that saved it . . .
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?
How the heck would a UV filtre save it?
Make me :)
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!
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
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.
Sarcasm fail.
ZIP* lol
+1
Dents are like scars.
I’m still trying to get what type of ID10T drops his/her SLR out of a plane…
Exactly. That is what I thought.
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.
Every false theory needs to have a plausible explanation!
If I said “I can fly”, that would not be sarcasm – that would be stupidity.
Every false theory needs to have a plausible explanation!
If I said “I can fly”, that would not be sarcasm – that would be stupidity.
perhpas its cus a 1D is way way heavier… it might even shatter upon hitting the ground :P
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