A Fujifilm FinePix S602 has survived the ultimate endurance test - a 100ft fall from the top of a castle. Roy Sands of Herne Bay, Kent, UK, accidentally sent the S602 over the edge of the top of Blarney Castle in Ireland, but amazingly the only damage was a snapped lens cover spring. Maybe the luck of the Irish helped Roy’s camera survive…

Fujifilm UK Press Release

Flying Fujifilm camera survives 100ft fall!

12 June 2007 - The Fujifilm FinePix S602 digital compact camera has been hailed a superhero by owner Roy Sands of Herne Bay, Kent. Roy was on holiday with his wife when his beloved Fujifilm camera took a 100ft plunge from the historic Blarney Castle in Ireland. “My wife and I were almost at the top of the castle and we were keen to snap the beautiful views from the summit”, says Roy. “We were about six steps from the top when I rested my camera on the windowsill to get my breath and use my inhaler. Unbeknown to me at the time, the sill was tilted and my camera slid down the 2ft wide sill straight out the slit window, plummeting 100ft to the grass below. I thought that was it but when I got downstairs the camera was in full working order. The only thing that took a blow was the spring on the lens cover, which had snapped,” continues Roy. “Luckily, thanks to the unbelievable strength of the camera, I was able to go back up and take some more photos; the only nuisance was having to climb back up the 120 steps of the castle! Thank you Fujifilm.”

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Fujifilm is a global leader in imaging technology, products and services including digital cameras, photofinishing, digital storage and recording media, consumer and professional film, motion picture film, professional video, printing systems, medical imaging, office technology, flat panel displays and graphic arts. The company employs more than 73,000 people worldwide, with 178 subsidiaries stretching across four continents.

Uniquely placed to be a market leader in digital imaging, Fujifilm develops and manufactures its own sensors, lenses and processing technology.  In addition to its production plants and R&D operations in Japan, the company has key manufacturing facilities in Europe and the USA for core products such as colour film, colour paper, single use cameras and CTP printing plates, and has further factories in Brazil and China. It has a global turnover in excess of £13 billion.

In the UK, Fujifilm has been supplying the imaging, printing and graphics industries, as well as consumers, professional and enthusiast photographers, with high quality, innovative products and services for over 25 years.  Fujifilm UK currently employs more than 450 people and has become one of the country’s most popular photographic and imaging brands.

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