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Equipment & Techniques => Digital Cameras & Shooting Techniques => Topic started by: PeterAit on January 25, 2014, 07:37:24 am
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I watched a fascinating documentary last night about changes to ice packs and glaciers around the world. In many locations the scientists would set up a time-lapse system, a DSLR in a protective case with external batteries and solar power, and leave it there for a year. I couldn't help but notice that all the cameras were Nikons.
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Ah, the power of the internet... those scientists must have seen this:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/23/torture-test-video-shows-nikon-d3s-being-dragged-to-hell-and-back-and-survi
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Ah, the power of the internet... those scientists must have seen this:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/23/torture-test-video-shows-nikon-d3s-being-dragged-to-hell-and-back-and-survi
I especially enjoyed the Nikon vs. Canon Drop Test, because I did a similar test (inadvertently) with my Pentax 67II some years ago. I was using an unfamiliar quick-mount on my tripod, and I didn't realize that I hadn't engaged it properly. The camera was about five and a half feet above hard pavement when the camera toppled over. It landed on the removable pentaprism, which was damaged beyond repair, but the camera and lens were not even scratched.
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Ah, the power of the internet... those scientists must have seen this:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/23/torture-test-video-shows-nikon-d3s-being-dragged-to-hell-and-back-and-survi
I see they also include a clip of Pentax's going through the mill with no ill effect. I never took mine to that extreme but they were hardly cosseted either and it's no surprise they got through it all, I just wish that they had developed their range further.
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The original post reminded me that the Winter Olympics are coming up and all the fanboys over on DPR will be counting cameras to see which maker is best represented in the press corp.
Later,
Johnny
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...which maker is best represented in the press corp.
I am sure it will be Cannon:
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I am sure it will be Cannon:
Some of those lenses do indeed look like cannons!
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Peter, was that the PBS piece with James Balog or the subsequent film, Chasing Ice? He's a Nikon guy, which might explain the choice of camera for the time-lapse photography.
-Dave-
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Peter, was that the PBS piece with James Balog or the subsequent film, Chasing Ice? He's a Nikon guy, which might explain the choice of camera for the time-lapse photography.
Chasing Ice is nice, but really comes across as a Nikon ad.
Cheers,
Bernard
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I watched a fascinating documentary last night about changes to ice packs and glaciers around the world. In many locations the scientists would set up a time-lapse system, a DSLR in a protective case with external batteries and solar power, and leave it there for a year. I couldn't help but notice that all the cameras were Nikons.
They began some years ago this kind of research with D200 cameras.
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Chasing Ice is nice, but really comes across as a Nikon ad.
Cheers,
Bernard
Seriously? Only a camera nut could think that :). I've seen it twice and could not have remembered what camera he used if someone paid me.
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Perhaps with the advent of crash ratings for camera, we will finally -- finally -- start to see camera crash-protection measures become adopted by the camera industry. Ground proximity sensors, airbags, and solid-fuel, powered ejection modules -- these technologies exist today. Manufacturers don't want to talk about these things. They want you to think they are impractical. Remember, only you can make a difference.
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Seriously? Only a camera nut could think that :). I've seen it twice and could not have remembered what camera he used if someone paid me.
Kirk,
Even my wife noticed it and she is very far from being interested in cameras... There is a whole bunch of short scenes whose sole and only purpose is to show the Nikon logo. ;)
I guess that they have done a better job than I thought if this remains un-noticed to some viewers.
Cheers,
Bernard