1st, glad you're intact.
I've been meaning to post this for a few days, and your experience
makes a perfect tie in.
Every week or so, somebody comes on the forum and claims the D30 is
just an overpriced digital Rebel. I seldom respond to them for the
same reason as the old saying, "Don't try to teach a pig to dance.
It frustrates you and annoys the pig." Anyway, in the January
issue of American Photo on Campus, the cover story is about Bill
Biggart, the only photographer killed shooting the WTC bombings.
On the cover is a photo of his D30, as it appeared when it was
pulled from the rubble.
He was using two film cameras and the D30. They didn't describe
the film cameras, but from the photo of his equipment, they look
like Canon professional bodies. Quoting from the text, "'The two
film cameras were just destroyed' says East--not surprising given
that a skyscraper had fallen on them. 'The backs were blown off
them.' Five canisters of exposed film were found. But the
astonishing thing was that the digital camera, a Canon EOS D30, was
more or less intact. 'The outside was solid white from dust, and it
was obvious that everything had gotten wet, but the inside was
pristine'."
They went on to say that they recovered 150 of his photos from the
compactflash card. The camera was buried under the rubble for a
week before being recovered, along with Biggarts body.
It gave me an eerie feeling to see the same camera body I baby so
much covered with dust, and the microchips where the lense had
broken off the body exposed.
Take care,
