Cameras away

Tech site Gizmodo recently reported on statistics from a UK insurance group on how customers break their cameras:

• 16% said it was their children or dogs
• 3% ran over their camera with a car
• 75% dropped their cameras onto a "hard surface", into water, or by falling onto it and using it to cushion their fall.

While this doesn't add up to 100% - have you ever noticed how surveys often don't - I can believe that dropping was the most common cause of camera death - because that was what happened to 7 The Ricoh - who I dropped to the slate floor in a bungalow in South Africa. Of course, I wasn't one of of those that "fell over" when taking shots, "often into water."