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I am struggling to wrap my brain around how one person could have lost that much at the starship test when all he's talking about are gopros
I went and asked in a chatroom with some space media folk i know but someone else took over the conversation and it went nowhere
it's simple really; he has a rig that's just 80-200 gopros in various floating rings where inside is a big gopro that says "be not afraid", and apparently It got hit by the rocket
it sure does
i've asked a photography discord and even accounting for "it could be like, several bodies, lenses, high-end tripods, and more beyond just the gopros" our estimates only came to like, 20k
I’m sure considered & addressed, but the photographer indicated 4 of 6 lost were gopros. Maybe the others were high-end? Like, a medium format digital can be 10k on its own.
Seems … something I want to think of negatively to phrase his ask like that & I wonder about leaving gear in the open and in a blast zone and uninsured.
Launch photographers always take risks to get their shots, setting up launchpad remotes is always gonna run the risk of "not getting a camera back" and nobody's gonna insure a camera against being deliberately placed mere hundreds of feet from a rocket.
Waivers are signed that the launch companies aren't responsible for any damage to equipment.
The risk here was... greater than advertised, by orders of magnitude, but even so.
I assume this was the one who had their minivan totalled. Maybe they're including the van as equipment?
even article comments are guessing that someone is definitely confused
