How Not to Paint Your Nikon D90 Pink
Kai at DigitalRev was recently given the challenge of painting a Nikon D90 pink magenta. He chooses to dismantle the camera in order to paint individual components, but works on it as carefully as one would work on a steak. At one point he even gets an electric shock from the components, though we’re wondering why he didn’t simply remove the battery. The camera miraculously looks somewhat normal in the end, but several parts are broken in the process (LCD won’t turn on, and popup flash wont’ go down).
What’s interesting is that he takes the pink camera to the Nikon headquarters along with a hidden camera. His interaction with the customer service there is quite hilarious.
Here’s the video of the whole “adventure”. It’s a bit long, and might anger you, but you get to see the internals of a Nikon D90 if you find that sort of thing interesting!
So anyhow, painting your camera like this is definitely something to be avoided. If you’ve successfully painted your camera without breaking it, leave a comment letting us know!
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This is what happens when people have too much free time. lol Go take some PICTURES!
He did remove the battery – says so in the video. Must be some residual charge lurking in there somewhere!
I believe the capacitor(s) that hold the charge for the flash can store that charge for a long time after the battery is removed.
as long as it wasnt a canon
Magenta my lily-white tuchas. That's PINK, dammit. And what a waste of pink paint it is, too.
*noddle*
Edie
“You damn kids get out of my National Park right now, and take that abomination of a camera with you!”
Quite amusing… But it really annoyed me that he had no idea how to approach this assignment… But custom-painting a DSLR seems to be possible.
I loved the Nikon HQ's reaction!
Thanks for pointing that out. Some other readers on Twitter did as well.
I always knew that Nikoners were sorta girlie…
Bloody… How could they destroy D90. I mean how could they do anything that stupid to any camera.
Pointless and annoying. Who decided that this guys monotone drawl would engage and entertain anybody?
Maybe that guy is good at painting but that's not the way to open a digital camera.
He opened it like he was opening an old tape recorder… Those cameras internally are compact and delicate. It's a mix of optic, electronic and precision.
It's not impossible to paint it, but first it's necessary to understand how to manipulate that kind of electronic gear.
That'll definitely be what it was – I dismantled an old film P&S once to fix it, received a few shocks myself (after one I attempted to remove the battery but whilst manoeuvring the camera to do so received a few more). They hurt a surprising amount!
I wish it was. What a waste of a perfectly good Nikon.
This is how they should ship nikons
Much like Canon-ers are egotists
Why?
omg, what if the components became sticky?
[...] is a 17 minute video showing Kai over at DigitalRev (the same guy that painted a Nikon D90 pink) putting a Canon 550D and Nikon D90 through various torture tests. The tests include stabbing them [...]
I must be an anti-Canonite then. At work, I’ve been known to say things like…
“Is Canon better than Nikon? Actually, there’s not that much between them….”