How Durable is your 7D?

Well, now you know that at least it will survive the next Ice Age as demonstrated by Digital Rev!

Watch the video here.
http://www.youtube.com …RCT-YMgjm9k&feature=g-u-u

are you offering up your 5D Mark III to see if it's built to the same standard??

mjmackinnon wrote in post #14421746
are you offering up your 5D Mark III to see if it's built to the same standard??

Maybe when the 5Dx comes out.

Yes, fairly tough. But none of these tests are the same as 8 continuous hours of belly dance photography with a 7D. Doing this I felt the 7D becoming a lot warmer, and the shutter response was becoming spongy. This situation was also reflected in a toasty warm 64GB compact flash device. I was worried the camera would actually fail, as I had a 20D fail under similar circumstances.

Love my 7D, but for extended duration show photography, going to rely on my super tough 1D3.

Wow, that's crazy!

Bryan

I love that guy.

that's crazy

Holy cow, that is amazing!!

Was pretty uncomfortable to watch though, I am off to give my 7D a hug!!!

Ian.

bikeboynate wrote in post #14422127


Maybe when the 5Dx comes out.

Open hand rite here.

PM me when the 5Dx comes out

dang...impressive!

ABP

Great to see this, last week I took a fall after shooting the sun set at Cable beach Western Australia.

I was leaving the beach with my 7D turned off with the 10-22 ef-s attached hanging by my left side (strap on the right side of my neck) & my tripod in my right hand when i slipped & fell hard on rocks. i tried to get the camera out of the way but just after I hit I heard the camera hit. i actually came down on the manfrotto, not pleasant!

With me on my back, the camera then slipped between the rocks for a little dunk in salt water. The only thing I could see at first was that the lens cap was missing, when I got off the beach & into some light i could see that there was some scratches on the bottom corners & some marks on the side of the pop up flash, the tripod mount helped I think (my watch band didn't fair so well).

The 10-22mm is destroyed, the front element is gone & the front was full off water & salt.

I got back to the hotel room & removed the battery & cf card, dried the body off & left all the holes open over night. The cf was fine & I got the photos of it straight away.

next morning I had a good look at the body & was happy to put a battery in & give it a go, all seems fine.

I've taken a couple of hundred shots over the last couple of days without any issues.

Thanks canon for building such a strong body & i'm glad a spent the money on it!

Phil

Lol, and next you'll see a story about a guy that dropped one 5 feet onto carpet and it shattered the case.