D70 crunched...

[Onyx]

OMG, OMG, OMG! Breathe... in, out... in, out.

http://www.photos-of-the-year.com/sahara-desert/

[Raydar]

Arr yes

Seen this one before
Hart braking isn’t it???

Cheers
Ray

[birddog114]

It's not mine!

[fozzie]

I hope this never happens to me.

This owner would be very

Cheers,

[mudder]

Oh no!

My heart sunk when I saw this image... You have my condolences...

Cheers,
Mudder

[Matt. K]

Stop complaining and have some faith. The owner stuck the lens back on and it all worked perfectly!

[xerubus]

insurance is a wonderful thing...

[gstark]

Stop complaining and have some faith. The owner stuck the lens back on and it all worked perfectly!

Typical Nikon behaviour, of course.

[Glen]

Onyx, is that you in the middle of your backfocus repair?

[atencati]

If I remember correctly, the story was his frind tried to lean out of a 4x4in the desert to take a pic, when he dropped the camera they ran it over.....Whats that funny looking strappy thing hanging off the body for, it just gets in the way

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[Greg B]

Should be available on ebay shortly

"Slight wear and tear"

[Nnnnsic]

Should be available on ebay shortly

"Slight wear and tear"

If they want some extra cash, tell people that the face of Jesus or Mary is engraved on the mirror.

[Onyx]

Yeah, that one got ran over by a fully ladened 4WD in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Interestingly, the author mentioned nearly all cameras in their convoy ended up having problems on the trip due to fine dust; with the exception of the L's from that company.

What surprised me was that the body looked fairly intact. I mean sure, the kit lens fell to pieces and stripped off the lens mount, but most of the damage was done around the pop-up flash area. Looks like the BM-4 escaped without a scratch!

[Nnnnsic]

So the body's made fairly well then, eh?

Hmm... I'd like to see what would happen to the 300D in a similar situation... just for testing purposes, of course.

It's a new sort of benchmark.

[Paul]

I'm surprissed they found it after it was mashed into the sand, normally if you lose something at the beach no amount of searching will recover the item. Might have been hard compacted sand possibly?

[Matt. K]

Oi! I'll just lay down in the sand and you drive by real fast and real close! That way I'll gedda great pictire of the 4 x 4 wheel churning through the hot sands!

Um....not that close.

[darb]

a CPL would have helped him immensely ... and/or grad ND cokin style.

though the environment wouldnt be too forgiving

[Onyx]

And now, the 300D version:

[Greg B]

And I believe this was caused by the user attempting to take several pictures in a row, and the pressure of having the shutter activated four or five times over a couple of minutes caused the whole thing to explode.

Canon describes this as user error resulting in normal wear and tear.

(There are two things that you can hang it on with a great feeling of freedom and joy, ex-wives and the 300D)

[Nnnnsic]

The flash looks better constructed than the rest of the camera...

[Flyer]

And I believe this was caused by the user attempting to take several pictures in a row, and the pressure of having the shutter activated four or five times over a couple of minutes caused the whole thing to explode.

Canon describes this as user error resulting in normal wear and tear.

(There are two things that you can hang it on with a great feeling of freedom and joy, ex-wives and the 300D)

Well, it was a well used camera I believe.
Took at least 40-50 shots before this happened...

[bago100]

Someone might be able to use the wire for spare parts.
also the flash erector spring seems to be functional as well

It will probably be advertised on e-bay soon.

"Near new Canon 300D. Some wear and tear. As is. Suit collector or enthusiast."


Cheers

[gstark]

And I believe this was caused by the user attempting to take several pictures in a row, and the pressure of having the shutter activated four or five times over a couple of minutes caused the whole thing to explode.

Canon describes this as user error resulting in normal wear and tear.

(There are two things that you can hang it on with a great feeling of freedom and joy, ex-wives and the 300D)

Now now ...

Ne nice to this poor Hyundai of a camera; it can't help it if it was owned by a Volvo driver, can it?

And please also remember that it was born brain dead; the body just took w few weeks to catch up.

[PlatinumWeaver]

I'm surprissed they found it after it was mashed into the sand, normally if you lose something at the beach no amount of searching will recover the item. Might have been hard compacted sand possibly?

They ran over it in a car..

All they'd need to do is look in the tire tracks..

[kurokaze204]

As a person who just a few months ago was debating wether to buy a D70 or a 300D, it amazes me the amount of stress induced by the first photo and yet almost none when seeing the 300D in a similar state of repair.

On another note, I've been using my D70 for 2 weeks now. On Friday I played with a 300D in a Duty Free in London and was shocked by how large and cumbersome the camera feels in the hand. They say it takes several seconds for the camera to start up. I think most of those would be taken up by twisting you finger around to turn the on switch! Modifying the camera's settings was equally un-intuitive. I thought the D70 was supposed to be the larger camera???

[gstark]

On Friday I played with a 300D in a Duty Free in London and was shocked by how large and cumbersome the camera feels in the hand. They say it takes several seconds for the camera to start up. I think most of those would be taken up by twisting you finger around to turn the on switch! Modifying the camera's settings was equally un-intuitive. I thought the D70 was supposed to be the larger camera???

Did this one have the battery grip fitted?

[kurokaze204]

No, it was just the original silver one. I was considering the 300D because of the battery grip option, though. I see the lack of one as the D70's greatest shortcoming (that and the min ISO of 200; 25 would have come in real handy last week in the Tennessee mountains).

That said, I've only charged my battery twice in the last two weeks and that was because I was nervous, not because it had run out.