Ever wonder how durable a Rebel is?

Click HERE for a documentary of what happens when a 450D/XSi falls off the top of your car at 35 mph.

Jim

Good for part's..

Lol I love how people still hate on plastics...polymer technology pwns faces now a days

TTk wrote in post #10186789
Good for part's..

The lens, maybe. He states that the camera was fine (other than the scratches), and works to this day, without repairs. What you are seeing mounted to the body is the remains of the Tamron, not a broken mount.

I'd say it fared pretty well.

Brett wrote in post #10186799
The lens, maybe. He states that the camera was fine (other than the scratches), and works to this day, without repairs. What you are seeing mounted to the body is the remains of the Tamron, not a broken mount.

I'd say it fared pretty well.

AH! I see now you have pointed it out..

How about the Rebel that survived a 3000' drop?

http://www.pdnpulse.co​m …l-that-fell-to-earth.html

yeah but if a cat chews on it you are f***ed!

that's atleast the second rebel I have seen fall off a car while at speed and same thing happened. broke the lens camera worked fine.

every talks about how the rebels are going to crack open the moment they get a glancing blow the wrong way. looks like they might be more sturdy then what people belive which is what I've been trying to say.

btw this does not mean test the theory out though

I could use a plastic fork to eat my salad tonight.......but I prefer to use metal.

(Who the hell am I kidding, I ain't eatin no salad tonight!)

Talk about shockproof!

I'd be afraid the AF system is misaligned lol

I accidentally left my 1D classic on the roof of the car the day after I got it and we drove off. Not even a scratch, it landed on the bottom thankfully and didn't touch the lens somehow.
Seeing it fall off the roof through the window though, you don't wanna see that happen, I'll say that much.

I'm so paranoid that I'll probably not drop my rebel. As soon as I unzip the bag I wrap the strap a couple times around my wrist and then lift it out of the bag. I have to with all the kids running around at home and in the classroom. I get bumped constantly.

It seems way too many people bash the durability of the rebel line yet you rarely ever hear of someone saying that they broke their camera due to handling it roughly. In fact i cant think of even one example

That's funny.

My son was getting up from a table at a restaurant with his Rebel, He turned quickly and the Rebel slung around and hit the corner of the table. Rebel was rendered inoperable, but Canon said they could fix it " for a fee! "

His Rebel took quite a bit of heavy use over the two years he owned it so there might have been some unseen damage and the restaurant trick was the straw the broke the camels back.

I cannot own a Rebel because it does not 'fit' me very well.

My first attempt at a Canon DSLR was the original Digital Rebel. I was using an EOS 3 Film Body at the time and the Rebel was tiny in comparison.

I took the Rebel home, put a lens on it and took a few shots. Went back the next day to return it and instead got an EOS 10D. The 10D cost a lot more money and was body only, but I had a collection of EOS lenses so that wan't an issue. Putting up $1500 for a DSLR body was " at that time ".

I had an XTi that took some abuse by hitting concrete at speed when I tripped. I flung my hands out to break my fall and "whipped the camera at the end of the strap to the sidewalk. Did that twice in four moths stupidly focusing the camera for a shot while walking forward at the same time. Other than some scratches on the RRS QR plate on the camera base, the camera was fine. Even the Canon lens survived but the lens hood took some scratches and I had to replace a UV filter.