Canon 16-35 "0" - Titanium Canon Mount "1"

[Jeff Brown]

Filming football yesterday (Soccer for some of you guys).

Direct hit side on wrote off a Canon 16-35 lens which snapped off at the mount.

Not a scratch on the Titanium mount.

So for anyone who is wondering whether to go Aluminium or Titanium that's a thumbs up for Titanium.........

 

[Martin Weiss]

To be a proper scientific test, you would have to do the same again with a aluminium mount

But I'm glad to have gone titanium.

 

[Jeff Brown]

No problem.....Can you lend me another 16-35?

 

[Michael Lindsay]

Hey Jeff

You need to film better quality football players ;-)

Michael L

 

[Jeff Brown]

Filming a national Goalkeeper........with a production co ordinator playing striker.....

You just can't get the staff!

 

[Elizabeth Lowrey]

Filming football yesterday (Soccer for some of you guys).

Direct hit side on wrote off a Canon 16-35 lens which snapped off at the mount.

Not a scratch on the Titanium mount.

So for anyone who is wondering whether to go Aluminium or Titanium that's a thumbs up for Titanium.........

Ouch!! Glad to hear the Epic wasn't damaged, but a lens snapping off at the mount sounds like it could propel some serious pieces of glass/debris inside the mount and possibly even into sensor area. None of that was touched?

 

[Alex Rawet]

I was torn between an Al and Ti Canon mount when we order our Epic, this has just cemented my choice of the Ti =)

 

[Stephen Mick]

Pictures or it didnt happen.

 

[Michael Lindsay]

Please tell me the camera was running?

M

 

[Jeff Brown]

Yes- at 100fps. Great look on the keepers face as he tries to reach it and a great tilt and shift effect as the glass snapped off to the right....

Just some glass dust on the sensor which I air blasted off so as not to scratch it.