3000 foot fall and still working

And its a rebel, not even a 1 series.

Didn't see this posted yet so...

http://gizmodo.com …amera-and-lens-still-work

I almost dont believe this.
3000 ft. is a long fall
If it fell into some kind of a marsh-like substance the body would get wet and fry. Anything else should have shattered it to peices.
Maybe he just dropped it in mud and went with it.

Yeah that is extremely hard to believe...The impact of that thing hitting the ground from 3k ft would have been tremendous.

it could happen.

A helmet with a camera can create alot of drag... the light weight of the system combined with large surface area could have slowed it sufficiently.

if it hit a branch and its kinetic energy was converted into rotational energy, that would slow the cameras speed. If the helmet landed in mud, the impact time would be lengthened.

definitely a possibility.

COOL STORY!

The post said that the body "fell off" of his helmet.

More pictures and "story" here.. and the guy's friend (who sold him the Rebel) said he might have video from the camcorder posted soon

http://www.fredmiranda​.com/forum/topic/84560​2

I don't know what is so hard to believe. It is just a little fall.

I have a really hard time believing that the LCD screen was completely intact after striking the ground at 100 mph. My friend accidentally took a Cybershot on the X ride at Six Flags and after the end of the ride there was a crack in the LCD screen.

i sort of dont believe it... the impact of a 3000 foot fall should have blown it into so many bits and pieces that you wouldn't be able to recognize that those pieces were of a camera if fallen on a hard surface. Now on a soft surface like grass or something maybe not to that extent but even then the sheer force of impact from such a high fall should have still crushed it if it hit soft grass.... it would truly take the perfect set of circumstances and angles and what not for this thing to have survived.... I think we need to send this story to the "mythbusters" lol and see what they come up with!

^great idea!

Agreed. Let Buster do the test

So everyone (well not everyone but......) will believe the , " I never take my CF card out but a pin bent itself into a knot...", stories but won't accept that a camera can survive a fall into soft ground.

If you search a bit you will find the full story.

I don't believe it. Even looking past the fact it works, has anyone here ever went sky diving?

You do not fall straight down on your decent. If you dropped a camera, or any object from over a half mile up, you would never ever find it. The search area for it would be MILES wide. And judging where you were when it fell off, after finishing your decent and you landing miles from the camera. Securing your gear, gathering your chute, finding a vehicle to hop in and then judging where you were in the air to find where it might have hit on the ground, just seems non believeable.

Then add in the picture looks to be taken on a table. Who really spends that time looking for a camera to take it somewhere and take a picture of it without knocking (accidentally or purposely) some of the loose strands of grass off of it?

No way this is true. 3000ft drop? I don't care how soft the landing site was, there is no way that Rebel would have survived. This has hoax written all over it.

I believe it. Probably a one-in-a-very large number occurrence, but every once in awhile, you hear about people or things improbably surviving long falls. This could just be one of those improbable times.