Last month I was out shooting by a beautiful lake, all in winter spirit with ice along the shoreline. This particular day it was extremely windy and the sky were just speedin' past like lightning, leaving beautiful trails of dust in the heavens.
So, I decide I wanna get the more "low" shot and walked down to the surface. I gently place the tripod, with camera attached to of course, two legs on the ice and the third on solid ground. Checked it twice, it was sturdy and would be still. Yeah...

Composition is set and placing of the 10 stop filter for a long exposure, check. I stand up and look around, as the camera screams beautifully with it's open mirror, soaking up every glimpse of light around.
The shot is captured and I see it's being saved down the card. As I lean to pick up the camera I see the third leg slip from the rock and down between the ice and rock, where there wasn't a hole 2 minutes ago! Of course this ice wasn't solid, after all.... dumb idiot.. It gently moved back and forth, not noticeable from a quick sweeping look standing up, nor sitting down. Now with the camera on it's way down the water I can just about reach it before it's fully submerged, "just about" here is keyword.
The damn camera dropped down fully under water before I managed to pivot my weight enough to grab the now submerged camera from the slope along the bottom.
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Yea, I was that dumb and it did happen. Here I stand now, holding a camera that's absolutely pouring out water and take a big sigh. Sometimes your own stupidity will cost you, a lot.
A few minutes later I had wiped it clean of all the water I could mange to get out and started laughing. Guessing it was filled with fear and tears at the same time.
The camera itself worked perfectly fine for 10 minutes and then the settings went bananas, kept changing all the time no matter what I did. Realizing my camera might be broken I packed my things and went home.
I leave the body open over night, hoping for it to dry out and to my surprise the following morning it actually works perfectly fine, maybe even better than before since I now have more clean images!

I've thrown around my cameras a lot, down cliffs, in the road riding a bike and knocking it over from various things. They always prove the Canon quality. And so to this "event", once again, Canon shows their cameras to truly live up to the reputation given by the mighty Japanese, to have outstanding quality!

Now, one month later, it still performs flawless with no signs of water damage. We'll see if there's anything when I'm turning it in for service in the end of the year.
I love you Canon, thanks.
Have you ever done something similar in terms of shear stupidity and idiocy with your camera equipment?

Peace Love & Canon, /Rob

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