Seriously, don't try this at home

Leonard Goh | Mar 12, 2008

Would you subject your dSLR through a series of rigorous tests just to make sure it survives drops and knocks as advertised? Apparently, Joseph Spina believes firmly in it.

On three separate videos on YouTube, he subjected a Nikon D3 to a series of tests that no one should ever try at home. As if pouring chocolate, jam, yogurt, oatmeal and water over the camera wasn't enough, he dropped the camera from a height onto a solid concrete floor, and violently scraped a bundle of keys against the LCD. To show that the camera survived the battery of abuses, he would fire off the shutter after each test.

Not for the faint-hearted, any photographer who goes through such great measures to maintain the condition of their camera will find this video disturbing.

In any case, watch at your own discretion and never, ever try this with your own camera.

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