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Old August 12th 04, 08:52 PM
James
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do you know of a camera that can take drops every so often. im looking for
somthing quite durable.


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Old August 12th 04, 08:59 PM
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"James" wrote in message
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do you know of a camera that can take drops every so often. im looking for
somthing quite durable.



Any old Nikon. Both my F301 and FM2 have survived 15 foot drops onto
concrete with only minor damage. My F90 has only been dropped from 4 foot
before but that also was fine. Lens was a bit buggered though.


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Old August 12th 04, 08:59 PM
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"James" wrote in message
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do you know of a camera that can take drops every so often. im looking for
somthing quite durable.



Any old Nikon. Both my F301 and FM2 have survived 15 foot drops onto
concrete with only minor damage. My F90 has only been dropped from 4 foot
before but that also was fine. Lens was a bit buggered though.


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Old August 12th 04, 09:51 PM
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"James" wrote in message
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do you know of a camera that can take drops every so often. im looking for
somthing quite durable.

F1, F2, and F3 which are all metal. My F3 with MD4 survived a drop from
waist level to concrete. The only damage was a very small chip in the paint
of the MD4.
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Old August 12th 04, 09:51 PM
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"James" wrote in message
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do you know of a camera that can take drops every so often. im looking for
somthing quite durable.

F1, F2, and F3 which are all metal. My F3 with MD4 survived a drop from
waist level to concrete. The only damage was a very small chip in the paint
of the MD4.
Jim



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Old August 12th 04, 10:06 PM
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James wrote:

do you know of a camera that can take drops every so often. im looking for
somthing quite durable.


Pro-level Nikons, especially film ones. My old SLR survived a 1.5-story drop
onto pavement -- I picked it up and kept right on shooting. You can smack
them into rocks, use them as defensive weapons, etc.

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Old August 13th 04, 12:53 AM
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"James" wrote in message
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do you know of a camera that can take drops every so often. im looking for
somthing quite durable.


My 1953-vintage Argus C-3 "brick" (see the top pic at
http://www.kyphoto.com/classics/argus.html)

Pretty f'n near indestructable. Pretty easy to repair/mod/tweak, too.


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Old August 13th 04, 02:25 AM
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"James" wrote in message
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do you know of a camera that can take drops every so often. im looking

for
somthing quite durable.


In the 70's there was the story of the climber in the Himalayas who
dropped his Nikon F over a 10,000 foot cliff, and wrote a letter of
complaint to Nikon that when recovered, the camera would function on
only one shutter speed.

Presumably apocryphal, but underlining the point that old Nikons were
expected to take a fair amount of damage. If I dropped my Nikon F2 onto
my concrete path, I might worry a bit about the lens, but I would also
worry about the concrete.

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Old August 13th 04, 02:25 AM
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"James" wrote in message
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do you know of a camera that can take drops every so often. im looking

for
somthing quite durable.


In the 70's there was the story of the climber in the Himalayas who
dropped his Nikon F over a 10,000 foot cliff, and wrote a letter of
complaint to Nikon that when recovered, the camera would function on
only one shutter speed.

Presumably apocryphal, but underlining the point that old Nikons were
expected to take a fair amount of damage. If I dropped my Nikon F2 onto
my concrete path, I might worry a bit about the lens, but I would also
worry about the concrete.

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Old August 13th 04, 03:14 AM
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I dropped my D60 2 weeks ago from waist lever. Landed on the canon lens hood
and bounced on the neckstrap bracked. It still works fine.

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do you know of a camera that can take drops every so often. im looking for
somthing quite durable.


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