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Chris1le
24th of August 2004 (Tue), 14:42
Just saw this article. With pictures!

http://news.designtechnica.com/article5140.html
JoeTampa
24th of August 2004 (Tue), 18:34
Take that, all you "I don't want to buy large CF cards since I might lose tons of images" people.... :o


Awesome find!


- Joe
DocFrankenstein
24th of August 2004 (Tue), 21:18
Images look 3D generated. :?
Daytripper
24th of August 2004 (Tue), 21:28
Agreed..

I can't reconcile the blur in the ground image with the lack of equivalent blur on some of the rock particles that should be travelling much faster....

Looks fake to me.
Jon
25th of August 2004 (Wed), 10:08
If the camera was moving as a result of the blast and the debris was moving toward it, you'd see just that . . .
Jesper
26th of August 2004 (Thu), 04:24
*ouch*, see that lens flying between the rocks... :shock: is it a Canon lens?

What camera did he use? A 10D? Great way to get rid of your 10D so that you can buy a 20D..... SanDisk pays for the equipment... :lol:
Big_B
26th of August 2004 (Thu), 04:39
Those things are pretty amasing. There was a BBC artical on this sort of thing not so long ago

They were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car and given to a six-year-old boy to destroy.

Perhaps surprisingly, all the cards survived these six tests.

Most of them did fail to get through two additional tests - being smashed by a sledgehammer and being nailed to a tree.

Even then, data experts Ontrack Data Recovery were able to retrieve photos from the xD and Smartmedia cards.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3939333.stm
John_T
26th of August 2004 (Thu), 04:41
...I guess you saw the word "advertisement" at the top. :wink:
BearSummer
26th of August 2004 (Thu), 05:19
Not exactly a controlled explosion if its throwing chunks of cement over 240 feet. No wonder they wanted everyone back 800 feet from it. Just glad that the photog wasn't stood next to his cameras.

Personally I don't think the shot was worth $15K, I wonder if his insurance will pay up or if they have a "You're to stupid to be insured" clause.

BearSummer
Jesper
27th of August 2004 (Fri), 05:56
Personally I don't think the shot was worth $15K, I wonder if his insurance will pay up or if they have a "You're to stupid to be insured" clause.

SanDisk were so proud that their memory cards survived that they paid for the damage....... 8)