The best photo geek commercial of the year (updated)

99 Comments

1. Dominic
   Posted July 14, 2011 at 1:36 pm | Permalink

   Great video, wonderful made, very nice. Maybe you know that the idee of this kind of maschines is from the Artduo Fischli and Weiss: Der Lauf der Dinge made in 1987

2. Lars Öhlén
   Posted July 14, 2011 at 2:52 pm | Permalink

   Great fun!

3. Rob
   Posted July 14, 2011 at 5:44 pm | Permalink

   To all the people mentioning Der Lauf der Dinge, look up Rube Goldberg. He was around a looooooooong time before that was made.

4. AnoNemo
   Posted July 14, 2011 at 6:27 pm | Permalink

   and no news from Nikon ….

5. avi
   Posted July 14, 2011 at 6:40 pm | Permalink

   dear god! all this time he could have been taking pictures.
   how knows, maybe it’s for the best he didn’t?

   • avi
     Posted July 14, 2011 at 6:41 pm | Permalink

     *who

6. Chris Malin
   Posted July 14, 2011 at 8:01 pm | Permalink

   Hilarious! Awesome… It’s not about having too much time – it is just creativity and soo much fun to watch. I like the part where the Canon lens is kicked out, hahahaha!

7. IanZ28
   Posted July 14, 2011 at 8:05 pm | Permalink

   NikonRumors,

   I think you broke the site code with the last update. I can’t see past the headline to the second article and it hangs with a loading icon.

   says “read ssl.gstatic.com”

   • [NR] admin
     Posted July 15, 2011 at 7:45 am | Permalink

     Are you stil having this problem? I cannot reproduce it on my end.

     • IanZ28
       Posted July 16, 2011 at 1:02 am | Permalink

       Yes, I’m still having the problem – but I’m pretty sure it’s my fault.

       I’m think it has to do with the advertising content. It isn’t wanting to load.

       I am using firefox 5.0

       I pulled up the site with no issues using IE so the problem is on my end and I think I have identified the issue. It’s more than likely a firefox addon called “adblock plus” that I believe is interfering with the website loading properly. It was never an issue previously.

       Sorry for raising alarms on your end.

   • broxibear
     Posted July 15, 2011 at 8:20 am | Permalink

     I’ve had this happen a few times, refreshing a couple of times usually works…the other thing I’ve noticed is after posting a post doesn’t show up until after refreshing.
     I’m using Firefox 5.0

8. aetas
   Posted July 14, 2011 at 9:06 pm | Permalink

   This was pretty neat. I brought my wife into the office to check it out and she thought it was amazing also. Plus commented on all the gear used.

9. Kevin
   Posted July 14, 2011 at 10:26 pm | Permalink

   nice one.

   omg’ed when the hammer hit the lens

10. Mark
    Posted July 15, 2011 at 12:17 am | Permalink

    Some mums believe their children have too much time on their hands. But in this case, it was well spent. Great humour and great effort. Thanks, Admin, for the laugh. Cheers.

11. Mark
    Posted July 15, 2011 at 12:35 am | Permalink

    The credits in the ‘behind the scenes’ video suggest Nikon did not help – in the hand-written list of sponsers at the end was this: “Nikon ??? “

12. joe schmoe
    Posted July 15, 2011 at 3:36 am | Permalink

    i like how at 0:18 it hits the canon lens. (sure, it’s one of those replica mugs, but still funny.)

13. roy
    Posted July 15, 2011 at 5:06 am | Permalink

    This is like a Micheal Bay film… Lot of action but that’s all…

14. Tony
    Posted July 15, 2011 at 1:05 pm | Permalink

    ……after this all the equipments will be auctioned as new??

    • [NR] admin
      Posted July 15, 2011 at 1:16 pm | Permalink

      Tony, those are two different “stories”.

15. Stan
    Posted July 15, 2011 at 9:57 pm | Permalink

    Man, we need news. What this neccesary?

16. Photographer Dundee
    Posted July 16, 2011 at 4:25 am | Permalink

    Love it!

17. Chen
    Posted July 26, 2011 at 10:29 am | Permalink

    THEY HUMMERED THE CANNON LENS LOL !