Danger Room‘s Noah Shachtman took a FujiFilm S6000 DSLR-alike with him on his last trip to Iraq. The photos came out fine—when he could keep the batteries in the camera.
For example, one day in Fallujah, I jumped out of a Humvee, to snap a couple of shots of a food run that wasn’t exactly playing out according to plan. The batteries all spilled to the floor of the truck. So I spent a couple of minutes scooping up Duracells, instead of documenting what went down. The same thing happened over and over again, during my month in Iraq: any time I really wanted a picture, the batteries would come flying out of the camera. Not even a heavy application of duct tape could keep this alkaline equivalent of projectile vomiting from happening. It’s like the camera was South Park’s Stan, and there was always a cute girl on the playground.
My Puke-on-Command Camera [Danger Room]
