You may remember (and were traumatized by) a video that we posted earlier this year where a hydraulic press was used to crush a Nikon and a Canon camera to determine just which camera company reigned supreme. This time around a 60,000 PSI waterjet gets the honor of slicing an EOS ELAN 7E 35mm SLR in half.
Camera companies often slice camera bodies in half to show off the inner workings of their new products at trade shows, but the Waterjet Channel kicks it up a notch by slicing a Canon camera body with the lens attached in half. Don't try this at home!
C'mon folks, give DP a break for showing this. I know exactly how this water jet works, and still found it interesting. I suppose that I could complain whenever a camera of a brand that wasn't mine was tested for photo use, but that would obviously be silly. This is large website with lots of information; if you don't want to see something, don't watch, or perhaps I missed a clause here that forced you to see this?
This isn't news people. Nor is it that shocking either. The manufacturing industry has been using techniques and technology like this to cut steel (among other methods, but this is not rocket science or anything new). Nothing new here. But I will say that I do agree with some that it does offer a nice cross-section view of the innards of a DSLR. And yeah, a hydrualic press can smash a camera into a pancake. Who cares? It can also smash your hand into a pancake too, did you know that? Or that this 60,000 psi tool can cut your arm off. Come on, DPR. Is this really news worthy..?
What a set of miserable gits there are on this site. As an engineer and a photographer, I found this fascinating. The point of it was to demonstrate what a clean cut could be achieved using that technique and thereby showing a very interesting cross section of the inside of a camera. What true photographer would not be interested in seeing that? Pot that in a clear resin and it would make a great decorative piece.
the irony is that those people writing here with emotional responses are most likely increasing the likelihood that articles such as these will get posted on this site by creating more discussion and adding to the total comment count. the smarter thing that they could have done to get what they want was to not react at all.
this video is not scientific at all, what's the point doing this ?
A bunch of photographer on dpreview necessary watch this thing, really ?
Does it related to what photographer do, actually ?
I think dpreview should think more about showing this "stupid" video on their site
It's like seeing youtube, destroying iPhone, brand new Samsung into pieces, using bullet, drown it into deep, etc etc, so, Apple and Samsung made the smartphone for that purpose, REALLY ???
We ought to see camera performance, or manufacture, etc, not stupid things like this
I got better idea !
How about, the people on the making get shot by the waterjet and captured in frames, show it here in dpreview and we will rate the effort in making those image !
If it is that relevant then you should be spending time talking and visiting universities, r&d labs and mining companies... you will get way more info from doing that than watching a dumb video destroy a camera... ymmv.
I've seen these old Canon SLR's selling for $5.00, in a store. They have little value or appeal to users of old equipment, who generally prefer something older or better. It's no different than cutting an old toaster or microwave apart. It'll all end up recycled anyway. Far worse things have been done to better cameras. I saw an exhibit of photos about five years ago where the artist had taken one photo with one camera (there were a slew of them) and they destroyed the cameras which were pasted alongside the images. There were some good film cameras there, including a Pen F with a fast lens.
This "old Canon SLR" would fetch a nice few hundreds of euros; they're not just AE-1 (old school FD) or some x00 series; it's an EOS30 (known under various other names) which implements a very unique technology: Eye Control for the focusing points. Even if just as a curiosity for the collectors that actually shoot at least a roll every year with the cameras they have, and it would still find a better use. For the record, in about 7 years working in a big camera store, I've only seen 3-4 of these. So no, they're not a 5$ commodity...
They're cheaper on Ebay. Not as cheap as some Canon bodies, granted. 1980's bodies the plastic ones are for the most part, highly undesirable. Unlike all metal bodies from the 70's.
Sorry dude, I can understand that one may think that Canon's M-series of cameras lack some features in comparison to it's peers, but one can't say they are bulky. The opposite is the case. The whole system is about compactness.
Awesome ...DUDES... I feel like I have been transported away to the Wonderworld of : DUMB AND DUMBER meets JACKASS! So totally RAD so UEBERKUHL, so so so...FETCH!
A surprisingly large number of film cameras do great video, I can recommend the Panavision 65mm ones... :-) Film SLRs are more limited, but can do a nice 8k timelapse...
I like this type of video in general, but this one was made by idiots. If I were doing this, I'd know what a pentaprism is. It felt like they were trying to impress the audience when using simple words like "concave" and "convex."
If I were doing this, I'd use a video-capable camera, and leave it filming for as long as it would during the cut.
The Elan 7e was a great film body in its day...mainly recycle bin material now like my A2 that gathers dust. What I really want to know is, why didn't Canon ever bring Eye-Control Focus to any of its DSLRs? The EOS 3 was amazing in that regard...I had an Elan II and it worked really well, even with glasses...
I had EOS 5, yes the ECF was amazing. Canon doesn't produce ECF cameras because Japanese govt. don't allow Canon to export this hi-tech product outside Japan.
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