Fire and Ice: Canon 7D Torture Test

[Lou_Meluso]

<p>Kai Wong is a bit goofy but he gets quite nasty with a 7D body. Hit by a bus, dropped down stairs, frozen in water and set on fire. </p>

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[JDMvW]

<p>It hung on me after about 6+ minutes, but I had seen this guy before, and I will eventually get it all and watch the rest of it.<br /> Thanks Louis,<br /> This is the sort of testing of which we need more! ;)</p>

<p>I think this may be the 7D I got on eBay the other day for a really good price.~</p>

[JDMvW]

<p>Got the rest of it. Worth watching all of it. LOL :)</p>

<p>The follow-up videos are fairly amusing too.</p>

[Andy Collins]

<p>Wow! I loved my 7D already but now I have even more respect for it. That was pretty impressive.</p>

[David_Cavan]

<p>That's way more pounding than I expected it would stand.</p>

[peter_j2]

<p>Kai is a YouTube star!</p>

[Marcus Ian]

<p>That was pretty impressive! of course the images (shown at the end) taken appeared to be completely unusable, but it is still impressive that the camera was functioning at all!</p>

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[matthijs]

Be sure to watch the episode in which they "test" two consumer dslr's.

 

That hurts just to watch.

[Mark Keefer]

<p>I want to see the Canon Repair Technicians face when they send it back to Canon for repair. lol</p>

[steven_crist]

<p>They did something similar last year in a Canon/Nikon comparison of which was more reliable. He put straps on each body and walked all around Hong Kong wearing the bodies as "shoes". Up and down steps, through water puddles - the works. Every few minutes he would take off his shoes and demonstrate they still worked. If I recall correctly the Canon outlasted the Nikon.</p>

[JDMvW]

<p>If you watch through the link above, the other links to his earlier tests come up.</p>

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<p>If I recall correctly the Canon outlasted the Nikon.</p>

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<p>Yeah, well it really was pretty close, as I remember -- sort of in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Beats_Yale_29-29">Harvard beats Yale 29-29</a> category, this from one who's an apostate Nikonian, shooting Nikkors on Canon EOS bodies....</p>