How much can it survive?

[nvitalephotography]

So I just moved down to Florida to work in the everglades, and its amazing here for bird photography. Most of my job involves working from air boats, and of course I always want to bring my camera with me, since I see so many cool things throughout the course of the day. My concern is that the air boats vibrate a lot, plus occasionally bounce a bit going over things, so Im worried about it doing bad things to my camera (50d and 100-400mm). I keep it in a padded case, but wonder if that is enough protection for it, or if I should just leave it home during work.


What should I do and is it something I really should be concerned with.





here are a few photos I have captured in my first week here.








f5.6, 260mm, 1000th sec. Mixed flock of wading birds (4 species)


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f5.6, 400mm, 1/250sec Snowy Egret


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f6.3, 400mm, 1/200sec. Purple Gallinule


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Thanks for the input





Nick

[Sinh Nhut Nguyen]

You have a dream job for every amature bird photographer. Bring the camera!

[nvitalephotography]

yeah that is a major perk of being a wildlife biologist. I get to see a lot of wildlife most don

[btaylor]

If you really want to take care of your gear I

[PaulM]

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[PaulM]

Just thought. If someone else drives the fan boat then you can keep the camera in your hands and it

[btaylor]

Can't see a pelikan on a bike but would fit on a boat... But would they damp the vibration?


I think so. They use high quality, high density foam in those boxes. Provided you don't pull too much out when making space for your gear then I think you'll be right. I'd rather have the pull out foam than the padded dividers in a pelican case.


Put it this way, I use Pelican cases for my remote electronic blasting box. These essentially have a computer in them the allows me to assign a delay to up to 2400 detonators to millisecond precision. We often blast anywhere up to 40 tonnes of ANFO and I usually tie the blast box up to the wall within 200m of the blast. That's a serious concussion - if you were standing at the box when it fired, you wouldn't be for very long. I very rarely have issues with components vibrating loose, they're very well protected in those cases.


So yeah, I reckon you'd be ok.

[nvitalephotography]

Yeah Im thinking buying a pelican case will probably be what I do, I just didn