Yep...just as the title says. Nuts...cuz, I'm not sure how many of you want to throw around your $$$$ toy...but, here's a site of some people who practice the technique with some interesting and pretty results: http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/200...amera-tossing/

 

Nice find, I'll have to read it tomorrow.

 

that's pretty cool

 

 

I've seen pics shot with this method, but I don't think I'm ready to try it just yet. With my luck it would land on my head & I'd break both the camera (again) and my head(again)!

 

Tossing means something different in the UK

 

man, i dont know. imagine someone tossing a 1Ds Mk III with a 16-35 L

 

What do you think we do when we get new lenses?

 

It's amazing the the things people can think of to do with a camera.

 

regular photography seems so boring all of a sudden...

 

I'll try that tonight

I doubt they are tossing SLR's around. I have a Nikon S6 that's just sitting around so I'll give it a good throw and see what happens.

 

Pretty interesting. I'm going to have to give this a try - without the wife seeing. Of course, with a P&S.

 

Cool. Just tried it with my BlackBerry. The results are pretty good, especially since its so easy to toss and catch the phone.

 

Point and shoots are pretty sturdy, actually. I dropped my old olympus countless
times - on rocks a few times! Thing just kept on going.

The biggest risk would be landing on the lens and jamming it.
If you could protect that, and did it over something reasonably safe (like say, grass),
It's probably not that bad.

- Frank

 

Well, couldn't resist giving it a try:



It's harder than it looks. First of all, you have to prefocus.
Then you have to throw and hope the camera doesn't rotate too much.
There is a custom timer thing on the SD800 where you can say, 'wait X seconds, then take Y shots' which helps a lot.

- Frank

 

haha.. I was gonna say, how many tries did it take you?

 

Wow...nice one, Frank! I dunno if I could ever try it even if I owned a camera.

 

this is pretty cool. dunno if i have the balls to do it though. seems like it would be best with a compact P&S that doesn't have a protruding lens

 

Pretty cool stuff, but not going to throw my camera like that.

 

will try with the P&S tonight