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potato1
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Canon Ef 600mm f/4 gets a dunking!
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April 06, 2008, 09:58:01 am »
I'm not sure how many of you have seen this before but I thought it was a pretty big eye opener, photos of a 600mm f/4 being retrieved from a crocodile infested swamp. Apparently, the guy was shooting from a bridge, with the 600 on a monopod with a 2x. The head snapped, with the lens hitting the concrete bridge, then rolling off, straight into the water!
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http://www.timaustinimages.com/p985663506/...76CFB#685206779
http://www.timaustinimages.com/p985663506/...76CFB#861584172
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http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=451992
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Jonathan Wienke
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Canon Ef 600mm f/4 gets a dunking!
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April 06, 2008, 10:11:56 am »
And the moral of the story is to not use cheap supports for heavy expensive gear. A hundred or two dollars more spent on stronger monopod+head would have saved a lot of misery...
Did anybody mention what happened to the renter's camera???
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April 06, 2008, 11:09:57 am »
I wonder if, in a future issue of Crocodile Weekly, we may look forward to a review of the efficacy of the the Canon 600mm f4 as man bait.
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