Camera damage?
Feb 15, 2020 00:03:40 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
tjw47 wrote:
When you fly, do you feel vibrations ??
if not neither does the camera.
if not neither does the camera.
One rarely feels high frequency vibrations. If they are being felt by you, you are being subjected to energy that is way too close to making your body a pile of jelly. But you can heard the harmonics related to the vibrations from the engines as the engines rev up and down. I have sat close to the engines and felt those harmonics. While sitting elsewhere in aircraft, those vibrations are almost none existent. Does the fact that the harmonics, which tend to be weaker than the generating vibration, are not felt in some areas of the aircraft mean that the stronger original vibration does not have any affect there? Again, new designs and materials have changed the ways vibrations travel in aircraft. It is not very likely that any modern camera in a modern camera bag will be affected by whatever residual vibration remains in the aircraft.
Feb 15, 2020 02:11:19 #
As a former USAF C-130 crew chief I can attest to the reliability and necessity of safety wire. The last flight I took happened to be an Airbus. The very definition of "bucket of bolts".
Feb 15, 2020 07:50:23 #
I imagine anything is possible . There are thousands of photographers That travel by air including all the Nat Geo photographers . If this is true all would have to take special precautions before they fly.
Feb 15, 2020 07:50:30 #
I imagine anything is possible . There are thousands of photographers That travel by air including all the Nat Geo photographers . If this is true all would have to take special precautions before they fly.
Feb 15, 2020 08:10:56 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
I'm still worried about waking up in a bath tub of ice and having my kidneys removed ....
And since your camera doesn't have a mirror you won't be able to see the damage. 😂
Feb 15, 2020 08:15:17 #
tinwhistle wrote:
As a former USAF C-130 crew chief I can attest to the reliability and necessity of safety wire. The last flight I took happened to be an Airbus. The very definition of "bucket of bolts".
I agree! I have flown all over the world on Boeing and Douglas jets, as well as C-130's and even DC-3's and yet departing from LAX on an A340 stood my hair on end. It was Tahitian Airlines, a subsidiary of Air France. The tarmac and taxiways at LAX are not the smoothest. The creaks, groans, and snaps I heard coming from the landing gear were incredibly loud and like nothing I have ever heard before. The center overhead bins sounded like they were about to fall down! My wife, who hates flying was terrified and even I was wondering if all of the plane's parts were going to be making the trip with us. Once in the air it was no different then any other airliner, but, on the ground, WOW!
Feb 15, 2020 15:46:55 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
LFingar wrote:
I agree! I have flown all over the world on Boeing... (show quote)
Most people are too distracted by their phones, games, and magazines to notice how much the cabin flexes and twists, especially at takeoff, in any aircraft. And it is a good thing, not a bad thing. That means that the aircraft is absorbing the stress of the forces that the takeoff produces. If the aircraft didn't flex and twist, that is when I would start to worry. That means the aircraft may not be absorbing stress any more. That could have a much more disastrous effect. I would want a parachute at that time.
Feb 15, 2020 16:33:35 #
wdross wrote:
Most people are too distracted by their phones, ga... (show quote)
You can look at it anyway you want, but, I have done a lot of flying in the last fifty-some years and I have never heard the kind of noises made by that A340.
Feb 15, 2020 18:34:57 #
flyboy61 wrote:
I do the equivalent of what you do "just in case." What else is one going to do? Worry? ... that high-frequency vibrations unique to jet aircraft could loosen screws, and do other mysterious things to camera equipment ...
Just in case, I wrap my equipment in as much vibration dampening stuff...socks, sweatshirts, etc. as I can.
Just in case, I wrap my equipment in as much vibration dampening stuff...socks, sweatshirts, etc. as I can.
Feb 15, 2020 20:00:37 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
LFingar wrote:
You can look at it anyway you want, but, I have done a lot of flying in the last fifty-some years and I have never heard the kind of noises made by that A340.
The one that I flew in was the one that seemed to flex the most visually. Although I didn't pay that much attention to the noise, it would not surprise me that it might have made the most noise from all the flexing. Again, as long as it flexes, I am not too worried about the plane. The wings of the B-52 are actually designed to flex 25 feet in both directions. If one look at the wings of the 787 from behind while on the runway, the wings actually "droop" down. Once in the air, the curve is all up. It comes down to design and how to handle all the energy and forces. It really is amazing that tons of aircraft fly to take to other countries to photograph.
Feb 16, 2020 08:48:42 #
60000 miles in the trunk of a Harley and my Sony Cuber shot is still working fine∞!
Feb 16, 2020 13:24:42 #
flyboy61
Loc: The Great American Desert
lev29 wrote:
I do the equivalent of what you do "just in case." What else is one going to do? Worry?
Feb 17, 2020 14:00:56 #
Jwshelton
Loc: Denver,CO
Over the past 20 years I have flown with camera gear 25+ times; many trans continental and between continents. Never has that been an issue.
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