How high can a 1D body be dropped?

patterson.photo wrote in post #6305408
How do you know he wasn't provoked? It isn't right but many of these "photographers" bring that kind of retaliation onto themselves.

Just my $0.02

I agree with you.

SunTsu wrote in post #6304764
Again, how can you tell what the thing is? I watched the video a few times and couldn't make it out. I'm going to guess the flash is toast too though, but I'd imagine it could take a fall better than a camera.

the camera his road manager smashed was worth around $1,400, the rapper only grabbed a $100 light unit.

Can imagine the photographer pestered them, that equipment is toast. That is no free fall but done with force, like dropping your stuff from a three floor building. Knocked my 550EX from the lightstand, about a 1,5m drop onto concrete. Only busted the red sensor lens. Glued it up and 6months later still working like a dream.

I don't think that there is any hard fast rule to any camera/equipment failure due to dropping.

My son was using an Nikon Coolpix 990, put it into an open gadget bag and then slung it over his shoulder. The camera flew out, reached over five feet and fell onto asphalt. No problems.

I had a zipper open up on a big multi zippered backpack. I did not notice this and while lifting it, a Canon 85 mm f1.2 fell about six to eight inches onto tall lush grass. Major problems.

Try to avoid drops.

If you're MKIII falls in a forest, and no one but you is there to see it, will anyone hear you scream?

10,000 feet. Honest.

geez people!!.. 4 pages and 50 posts, to still have no definite answer for the OP.

OP, the 1D Mark III will shatter if dropped higher than 5,000 feet AGL.

Ok!... next thread.

Depends on many factors, the pro bodies are designed to break, with the intention of repairing them.

If dropped the lens will shatter and the throat mount will part, that should 'save' the camera. The top plate can be actually broken too, if it sustained and arrested the shock wave, the camera will repair ~ we are talking here about 'normal' repairs for a pro service DSLR.

You're D40s of this world get written off if subjected to the same violent impact on hard surfaces.

GerBee wrote in post #6319675
You're D40s of this world get written off if subjected to the same violent impact on hard surfaces.

I was very lucky 5 years back when the wind blew my tripod over on a run way, my 10D with a sigma 15-30 on the front fell on to tarmac face down from about 7 feet. The camera was fine, just a small scratch to the canon logo, probably saved by the metal petal hood on this lens which bent inwards until it was touching the lens.

Remarkably after a bit of work with a pair of pliers, even the lens worked in manual focus. Still I sold the camera immediately to a dealer just to be sure .

Also if you smash a 40D to bits - it will cost you £400 for a decent newish replacement - I bet that the repair bill from a Canon Pro center would cost a LOT more than that to repair any significant damage on a 1 series body!

Just don't drop them.

I remember my friend dropped his point and shoot down a 60ft granite cliff when we were climbing, amazingly despite the pinball wizard effect, it worked perfectly!

mezorn26 wrote in post #6317110
If you're MKIII falls in a forest, and no one but you is there to see it, will anyone hear you scream?

Heh! Now that's a good question, the other being, will anyone outside of POTN care?!

jr_senator wrote in post #6301208
As far as any of my cameras a drop of over 1.5mm onto anything other than a large overstuffed pillow would be unacceptable.

Time to harden up a little!

Cameras are tools that are designed the be used not molly-coddled and not abused either.

What happened to the camera with Kanye West was definitely abuse.

My 1D cops hefty knocks regularly and has been dropped accidentally with no adverse effects at all. That's part of the reason I have a 1D series camera to cope with heavy duty use.

No, actually my last 1DMKII, thrown up in the air in a church as one slipped and it fell on the marble, in Sterling £375

lifethroughalens wrote in post #6319726
Also if you smash a 40D to bits - it will cost you £400 for a decent newish replacement - I bet that the repair bill from a Canon Pro center would cost a LOT more than that to repair any significant damage on a 1 series body!

Just don't drop them.

Where is that picture of the, I believe it was, the 1DmkIIN that had the 400 2.8 ripped from the body?

I remember it being a sports photog. but cant seem to find the image anymore.

GerBee wrote in post #6319942
No, actually my last 1DMKII, thrown up in the air in a church as one slipped and it fell on the marble, in Sterling £375

that's pretty reasonable....although almost on the button for buying another second hand 40D body which you could pick up the same day.

I've always been impressed with most all the digital SLR's as far as robustness goes, there's not many other electronic gadgets that consistently work under so many environmental conditions.