Seagull Steals Camera
Posted on July 7, 2011 in Outtakes | 12 Comments
In Cannes France, be careful where you set down your video camera… the seagulls there have taken up filmmaking and are always on the look out for new gear.
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I would be so upset.. luckily the guy found it!
This is so fake, everything is set up. there is a similar video during day time, and in both cases, the camera is either easily located or miraculously comes back to the owner. Yawn.
It’s hard to tell if it is fake or not. Now a days it’s so easy to believe that it was faked, because of the high end software.
In my opinion if it’s fake it’s even better.
Listen its a simple matter of weight ratios, a 5oz bird can’t carry a 1 pound camera.
I don’t care what you say. I am convinced this was uploaded by the seagull. :P
Now that there sounds like the work of some angry birds.
The GoPro camera is listed as 5.9oz on B&H Photo. They’re extremely light weight and so small they’re commonly used as helmet cams.
I don’t know what species the sea gull is, but the European Herring Gull weighs in between 2 and 3 pounds. So it’s definitely has the muscle to take the 6oz camera – considering they often carry small creatures like crabs.
And its not unheard of for seagulls to steal anything that looks like food.
If you watch very very closely, the bird actually flies clockwise in a big circle so it may not have actually been too hard to track the thing in the sky. Plus the fisheye lens exaggerates the distance the bird probably flew.
The creator http://www.youtube.com/user/opica1983 has several videos up going back a couple years so it wasn’t just a single video uploaded by a mysterious user.
I think its real… I could be wrong but the facts check out okay.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afTYvt-oEmc&feature=player_embedded#at=19
An interview with the owner of the camera… turn on CC for English subtitles.
Smells a wee bit cooked up to go viral but who knows. The marketing dept of this company is pretty creative so I wouldn’t put it past them. Kinda funny cause I actually have a couple of em left over from a project and was talking to someone about how cool it would be if I could somehow mount one on to one of the crows that are flying around for some cool shots. But how to get it back, I guess you’d have to get some kind a GPS chip in there or something… then what? shots would be cool though.
Does it matter if it’s real? The goal was to bring awareness to their product. They succeeded like few others dreamed of. That’s the point. If it is fake they deserve even more credit. Forget about doing some sort of of video CSI and analyze the brilliant marketing.
Makes me want to buy a GoPro…