Images by Amanda Stevens on Facebook
By mistake Amanda Stevens dropped the A7 inside a Lava flow on a volcano in Hawaii. And sorry to say but weather sealing cannot withstand it 🙂
Amanda writes:
“This is apparently what lava does to a camera…just thought you should know.”
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That made me sad lol.
Just remember that Lava also destroys the Terminator….Just saying.
Mh… I don’t think a blast furnace qulifies as lava…
Shot done in a shop. That’s what you may get in an open box deal!
But all in all further take pictures and, after stripping is like new ???
Those are some polished fingernails for a girl who fishes cameras out of molten lava with her bare hands!
she wrote on facebook: “this is NOT my camera. I was working at a camera store demoing product and this was at said store to demo and show why extended warranties are important “
Perhaps it’s because of those fake nails that she could not hold the camera properly..
Haha, I thought the same.
Good one… I thought like you
Just curious… How did she get her camera out of the lava??????
Given the little bit of detail available, I suspect it wasn’t really lava, which was said to make the point more dramatic; more likely a house fire.
If it had been accidentally dropped into lava, there is very little chance you would have anything to hand that could safely retrieve such a small item before it was totally consumed. Merely standing within reach would be risky and very, very hot.
That’s not to say it isn’t possible, as there are areas of volcanic activity which are slow and accessible, but the retrieval would seem to be the difficulty.
That’s what I thought, too!
First thing that came to mind also. Could be wrong but burn/melt pattern reminds me of a house fire. I don’t know, the whole ” went to Hawaii, ‘dropped’ my camera in the lava and then picked it out” seems to be missing some details .Hawaiian lava is listed as having a temp of around 2012 F so if it was liquid or recently liquid it would have to be a pretty quick drop and retrieve ! The radiant heat from that would be eyebrow singeing to say the least !
Sony really have to fix that overheating problem.
She should’ve dropped those fake fingernails into lava 🙂
^^^
LOL I was thinking to say this, but you did it so much better! hahaha
I wonder if the melted buttons on the right side are now more water-resistant than there were before.
I wonder how she retrieved it.
Ahhh..that will buff right out.
The lava seal on this camera failed miserably. You can clearly see the lava damage on the sensor. Sony need to up its game in this department!
The front and rear scroll wheels and the front plate seem to have survived the heat rather good. Thus, the camera is an A7R or A7S, not A7.
It’s an A7s. But only the front plate differs from the A7, the wheels are metal on that too.
This old pic from DPR is supposed to show the differences in the use of metal between the A7 (to the right) and A7R (left) when they were introduced. The A7S inherited most of the exterior components from A7R. (I have both)
This is the reason : ALL E-mount camera are not Weather Sealed !!!!! Joke of course in this case !!! BUT , why no weather sealing on any Sony camera ??????? they cost enough don’t they !!!! by the way, Sony don’t have weather sealed lenses either !!! no good for the pro’s is it !!!! Sony wake up, on one hand you’re advanced and on the other you’re behind the competition, in that connection !!!!
I am going to receive criticism for this !!! oh well …………..The truth is out there somewhere !!!!!!!!
>why no weather sealing on any Sony camera ???
A77II and 16-50 f/2.8 are weahter-sealed.
I am talking about No E-mount Weather Sealed camera’s and lenses!!!!
It’s in a camera shop to sell extended warranties? Ok, they probably dropped it in lava on purpose, since lava wouldn’t be able to get inside the body if a lens were mounted (at least not before the lens and most of the camera were totally melted). It’s a cool demo, but given my recent experience with Adorama’s New Leaf warranty, I doubt they’d cover it, claiming lava (like the rain that killed my camera) is an act of nature.
I was about to buy an A7 camera but now I’m having second thoughts…. I thought it was sturdier!
Don’t worry, it doesn’t have weather sealing to begin with.
Dang. Someone shoulda warned Bilbo not to get too close to Smaug with this new toy. Dragons just hate macro lenses for portrait work.
Confirmed: Sony A7 more durable than the One Ring of Power
I don’t know about you guys but this made me cringe like when I watch a video of some random dude getting kicked in the nutsack 😀
You watch a lot of those videos?
But I know what you mean. I suffered angst when I read the 35/1.4 break-down article.
I get my occasional kick out of them 😉
It’s not Amanda’s camera nor does she know what happened to it. She says, “I was working at a camera store demoing product and this was at said store to demo and show why extended warranties are important “
Warranties don’t fix stupid, but they might replace it….
You are the supreme sceptic, Tony. Another myth busted. I bow down in awe.
Sensordust!!
Talking about overheating issues …
🙂
This a good reason to use the strap. Dummy.
and 1200$ puff this is drama not a broken camera 🙂
No lava sealing and not volcano proof? What a dealbreaker, I’m jumpin’ ship to canon … 😛
I hope Hawaii didn’t have to spend a fortune rescuing some fool, who obviously got way too close to a lava flow.
That’s not a camera, that’s Darth Vader’s helmet.
Nothing a firmware update can’t fix.
Wow, the Sony A7 melts on contact with molten lava! Who knew?
Obviously this is a slow news day.
How dare Sony not provide Lava protection. 😉
Can a sensor melt if you take a picture of the sun with a 800mm in manual mode with a long shutter-speed?
No. But some lasers can destroy sensor electronics if aimed correctly.
True! there is a youtube on this where a club laser roasted the sensor of a 5DII
http://youtu.be/qzyKLoEDb64
Damn, that’s pretty bad.
No. Camera lenses are not used like like magnifying glasses to concentrate all the received energy into just a small spot. As far as the intensity of the light of the image of the sun on the sensor is concerned, the focal length isn’t even relevant. It’s only the f-stop that matters (OK, t-stop if we must as that includes lens absorption losses).
Insofar as the focal length does matter, it’s only that the image of the sun will be larger and hence the total amount of light/heat energy which is delivered to the sensor will be higher, but that’s simply matched by the larger area. You might, therefore, get some more issues related to noise and so on.
The Westinghouse Lunar Color Camera taken to the moon on Apollo 12 did not fare so well. It used a much more delicate imaging tube and was accidentally burnt out when inadvertently pointed at the sun whilst being set-up on a tripod. The sun at the moon’s surface is, of course, unfiltered by any atmosphere so contains a great deal of high energy UV.
As Thom points out, very high powered lasers can damage sensors but that’s simply because the light intensity can be much higher from a laser than the sun.
nb. I’m not recommending anybody tries this as an experiment. Whilst the sensor is overwhelmingly made of silicon (which is very heat resistant), there is a filter matrix and microlens arrangement which will be more delicate. It’s always possible prolonged exposure to relatively high light levels might degrade the coloured filter.
oh Sonyalpharumors… I really hope this isn’t you Jumping the Shark. You Are rePosting a picture someone posted on FB.. It wasn’t their camera, I know because Amanda is a Canon shooter… I hope you would vet your posts a bit better..
I am a sony user and a daily viewer of your site….
Was the SD card inside still readable?
Yes and it shows some idiot standing on a boulder next to a lava flow smiling while his GF, taking his picture with a phone, tells him to step back, just one more step….
😀
Haha, she rescued the camera, but not the boyfriend.
What I’d REALLY want to know is how they’ve got the camera BACK after they dropped it to lava? This camera is now Darth Vader of the photo world 🙂
She just picked it up with her Titanium nails.
sub par build quality.
I bet the Canons and Nikons melt like a candle just by placing near a heater~
Yeah, clear case of warranty.
From the surrounding lens boxes I gather she was in the shop requesting a return.
The reason “Photographer was having a session with a bed of hot erotic models in nude, both photographer and camera experience instant melt-down”
I bet the Canons melt like a candle just by placing near a heater
You obviously never used one of the more serious Canons. 10D, 7D, 5Dii 1D… all tough as nails.
Something fun to watch: (only if you haven’t Kai-phobia of course)
The infamous Canon 7D – Hardcore Durability Test.
http://tv.digitalrev.com/v/RCT-YMgjm9k
When your sexy model is too hot to handle~
Or if the sexy photographer has too long fake nails to hold the camera. LOL
Glad I’ve only had my A7 fly off the roof of my car and that I’ve never dropped it in lava, heh.
As Pixar says in the short film: ‘I lava youuuuuu’ XD