CompactFlash card takes licking, keeps ticking while the digital camera croaks

[NFS4]

ROTFF

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/336/C3131/
http://news.com.com/CompactFlash+card+takes+licking%2C+keeps+ticking/2100-1041_3-5322819.html?tag=cd.lede

 

[pyonir]

:thumbsup:

 

[DurocShark]

Awesome pics!

 

[JulesMaximus]

Pretty stupid for putting a nice camera that close to an object about to be blown up. Guy didn't use good judgement there and got PWNED!!!

 

[ragazzo]

meaningless. the camera's shell took most of the beating and there are no moving parts in a CF card (unless it was the minidrive type)

 

[andylawcc]

Frazier received a few CompactFlash cards and a USB flash drive from the company.

this reminds me of the Top Gear episode where they try to destroy the Toyota Hilux.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Pretty stupid for putting a nice camera that close to an object about to be blown up. Guy didn't use good judgement there and got PWNED!!!

Earlier this month, 50-year-old Frazier was assigned by the Southeast Missourian newspaper to take photos of the dismantling of a section of a highway bridge along the Mississippi River.

City officials and some of the demolition crew wanted onlookers at least 800 feet away, but Frazier's remote controls for the cameras only had a range of 600 feet.

He worked it out, signing several waivers and agreeing to stand behind some construction equipment so that he could be close enough to activate his cameras. He felt the blast.

"The pressure from the explosion had to go somewhere, so it followed the path of least resistance, which was on level with where my cameras were set up," Frazier said.

The pressure created from 600 pounds of dynamite exploding caused about $15,000 worth of damage to Frazier's gear.

 

[Ameesh]

CF cards are solid state what do you expect? they are inherently pretty sturdy

 

[Beau]

Expensive pictures :Q

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
CF cards are solid state what do you expect? they are inherently pretty sturdy

So what, the pictures are awesome It's like looking through the eyes of a bicycle delivery guy in NYC just before that cab door opens up right in front of him :laugh:

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Ameesh
CF cards are solid state what do you expect? they are inherently pretty sturdy

So what, the pictures are awesome It's like looking through the eyes of a bicycle delivery guy in NYC just before that cab door opens up right in front of him :laugh:

Something strikes me as a bit off. It takes 1 - 2 seconds for the camera to write a file to the CF card. That explosion must have played out in less than 1 second. The article states that the CF card was blown out of the camera. That would mean that the camera would have been unable to write to the card from its buffer. I wonder if those pictures are really from the destroyed camera. I'm betting they are from one of the two which sustained less damage.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: DBL

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: Ameesh
CF cards are solid state what do you expect? they are inherently pretty sturdy

So what, the pictures are awesome It's like looking through the eyes of a bicycle delivery guy in NYC just before that cab door opens up right in front of him :laugh:

Something strikes me as a bit off. It takes 1 - 2 seconds for the camera to write a file to the CF card. That explosion must have played out in less than 1 second. The article states that the CF card was blown out of the camera. That would mean that the camera would have been unable to write to the card from its buffer. I wonder if those pictures are really from the destroyed camera. I'm betting they are from one of the two which sustained less damage.

Someone didn't read the first article

First picture, camera #1 (destroyed camera):

The camera managed to capture the last millsecond of it?s life shown in the photo below

Second picture, camera #2:

and one other camera on a tripod near by captured his own camera being ripped to pieces in mid-air

 

[welst10]

$15,000 camera, wow. he better has insurance for it.

 

[DBL]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Someone didn't read the first article

First picture, camera #1 (destroyed camera):

The camera managed to capture the last millsecond of it?s life shown in the photo below

Second picture, camera #2:

and one other camera on a tripod near by captured his own camera being ripped to pieces in mid-air

oops. Actually, I did read the article. For some reason, I read that line as "no other camera captured...", which I admit seemed strange to point out.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[NFS4]

http://www.sandisk.com/pressrelease/20040823.htm