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Compactflash card survives! $15,000 worth of equipmnt didn't

 
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Aug 24, 2004 14:42 |  #1

Just saw this article. With pictures!

http://news.designtech​nica.com/article5140.h​tml (external link)


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Aug 24, 2004 18:34 |  #2

Take that, all you "I don't want to buy large CF cards since I might lose tons of images" people....  :o


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Aug 24, 2004 21:18 |  #3

Images look 3D generated. ?!


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Aug 24, 2004 21:28 |  #4

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.




  
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Aug 25, 2004 10:08 |  #5

If the camera was moving as a result of the blast and the debris was moving toward it, you'd see just that . . .


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Aug 26, 2004 04:24 |  #6

*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:


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Aug 26, 2004 04:39 |  #7

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.

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Aug 26, 2004 04:41 |  #8

...I guess you saw the word "advertisement" at the top. :wink:


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Aug 26, 2004 05:19 |  #9

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.

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Aug 27, 2004 05:56 |  #10

BearSummer wrote:
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)


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