Hmmm.

I was checking out ‘The Luminous Landscape,‘ a huge site of 3500 pages containing articles, tutorials, product reviews and photographs, all devoted to the art of landscape, nature and documentary photography, when I came across the article ‘Antarctica 2009 – What Worked-What Didn’t‘ which stated,

“Failures

In a summary session on the last day at the Peninsula I asked everyone to report on any equipment failures. Here’s the tally.

The top LCD on a 5D MKII spontaneously cracked; Another 5D MKII had a jambed on lens caused by a loose screw, a 1Ds MKIII reported intermittent problems; a 1D MKIII kept reporting Error 99; one Hasselblad reported electronic lens connection problems; two Canon G9’s failed (no G10s had any reported problems), and a Nikon 80-400mm lens came apart. No Nikon bodies (mostly D700s) failed in any way.

The largest group of failures through were among the Canon 5D MKIIs. Of the 26 samples of this camera onboard, one quarter (six) failed at one time or another, and while three recovered, the other three never did.”

I know what you’re thinking… “Geez. We’re talking about Antarctica here. It’s not like I’m going to take my Canon G9 or my Canon 5D up to Antarctica any time soon. I just run around (insert hometown here) and take pictures.”

That may be true, however, the article continues to state,

“I don’t know what conclusions should be drawn from this high percentage of 5D MKII failures. All I can do is report on the facts of the matter. As for the weather during which most of the failures happened, it was no worse than a drizzly day in winter in New York or Berlin. Nothing Antarctic about it at all.”

Take all of that for what it’s worth. I just thought I’d pass it along.

Check out the site. There’s a ton of stuff for all you nature and landscape photographers out there.

-Jim

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