news.digitaltrends.com— A news photographer's camera was destroyed during the recent demolition of a Mississippi River bridge, but the camera's Compact Flash card survived to tell the story.
Mar 18, 2007View in Crawl 4
Hate to be a skeptic, but am I the only one that thinks these images may not be real? Maybe Ive just seen too many altered images in the media lately....
Exactly. The CF card is inside the camera and has no moving parts. This says absolutely NOTHING about the reliability of SanDisk cards. It says more about the structural integrity of the camera itself.
Well, except for that 5 ton chunk of concrete that the inexperienced blaster's incidentally launched off of a pier in a perfect trajectory to land upon the hole you dug to protect your camera.No matter what situation you plan for, it is entirely possible that you will end up with a situation that goes outside of what you planned for. Be it too much explosives launching shrapnel across a field and taking out cameras, directly, or indirectly. You do your best with the information you have to begin with, which in this case was very likely a q&a with the demolition crew to determine what was going to be a safe distance from the explosives for the cameras as well as safe for people, and work from there. For insurance purposes you document that information. (You do carry insurance. Right?) And if things go wrong you respond accordingly.(Sometimes that means publish what success you did have, such as the story of how the flash drive survived an event that destroyed the camera it was in.)
dengzhiMar 19, 2007
I first read it as, "Blast Destroys Canada,"
user777Mar 19, 2007
considering the camera is about 50x the size of the flash card ... what a comparison
triptuckerMar 19, 2007
Hate to be a skeptic, but am I the only one that thinks these images may not be real? Maybe Ive just seen too many altered images in the media lately....
twalker294Mar 19, 2007
Exactly. The CF card is inside the camera and has no moving parts. This says absolutely NOTHING about the reliability of SanDisk cards. It says more about the structural integrity of the camera itself.
bridowMar 19, 2007
i guess a zoom lens was too much to ask back in 2004
jordanlundMar 19, 2007
Buried for being 3 years old.
aintnosinMar 20, 2007
Most professional DSLRs still use Compact Flash. Try getting an SD card in 12-16GB.
rusty0101Apr 5, 2007
Well, except for that 5 ton chunk of concrete that the inexperienced blaster's incidentally launched off of a pier in a perfect trajectory to land upon the hole you dug to protect your camera.No matter what situation you plan for, it is entirely possible that you will end up with a situation that goes outside of what you planned for. Be it too much explosives launching shrapnel across a field and taking out cameras, directly, or indirectly. You do your best with the information you have to begin with, which in this case was very likely a q&a with the demolition crew to determine what was going to be a safe distance from the explosives for the cameras as well as safe for people, and work from there. For insurance purposes you document that information. (You do carry insurance. Right?) And if things go wrong you respond accordingly.(Sometimes that means publish what success you did have, such as the story of how the flash drive survived an event that destroyed the camera it was in.)