Now, I don’t–and Canon doesn’t either, I’d wager–recommend that you drop a perfectly good Canon SLR out of an airplane to see if it survives the impact.  But as one aerial photographer discovered, it could.

The story goes a little something like this: Marius Ivascu is a parachuting instructor in Florida, who went on a skydiving run and, much to his dismay, saw his Canon Rebel XT detach from its helmet mount as he deployed his parachute.  The camera took the quick way down, and about three thousand feet later, made catastrophic impact with the ground.

About a half hour of searching later, once he got back on the ground, he found the Canon’s drop zone, and it looked startlingly undamaged.  There was a crack in the side and some grit in the lens, Ivascu recounted, but when he turned it back on, he discovered that the last image he’d taken was in the camera.   To this day, he still uses the camera.

Estimates say that Canon hit the ground at somewhere between a hundred and a hundred and ten miles per hour, making it one of the strongest and most durable cameras in the history of ever.

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