Canon Ef 600mm f/4 gets a dunking!

[potato1]

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!

Photos:

http://www.timaustinimages.com/p985663506/...76CFB#685206779
http://www.timaustinimages.com/p985663506/...76CFB#861584172


the thread:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=451992.

[Jonathan Wienke]

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???

[Justinr]

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.

Justin.