This photographer baked a cupcake in his Canon 5D Mark IV
Oct 23, 2017
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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Those of you who follow Eric Paré’s work know him for amazing light painting photos and tutorials. But this time, he did something completely different, which could make Canon lovers among you laugh and cry at the same time. The title is not a joke – Eric and his partner Kim Henry actually baked a cupcake in a Canon 5D Mark IV’s body.
As Eric points out as a joke, he always likes to keep his gear “safe, secure and clean.” Maybe a bit too clean, I’d say, since sometimes it almost gets dipped in water. Because of this, his brand new Canon 5D Mark IV died during the trip to Bolivia. He had a backup (fortunately), and when he returned to Montreal, he sent the broken one to Canon repair station. It turned out that the fungus got inside of the camera. So, there was nothing they could do, because the warranty doesn’t cover it.
In an attempt to add some humor to the loss, Eric and Kim decided to make the most expensive cupcake mold in the world. They took the ingredients, got to the kitchen and baked a cupcake inside the camera body. Mushroom cupcake, of course.
Kim made the dough and poured it into the camera body. For me, this was quite painful to watch. They say they were afraid of fire and smoke, so they moved the oven outside. Fortunately, nothing went wrong. They even made one of those mouth-watering timelapse videos showing the cake being baked. In the end, they even tasted it. It looks like they survived.
This video is painful to watch and funny at the same time, but it’s not just that. At the end, Eric made the point saying that you should never leave your electronic gear in a humid place. It could end up developing the mold … and eventually becoming the cupcake mold. And I’m sure you wouldn’t like those cupcakes that much.
[The 5d Mark IV mushroom cupcake – Tube Stories 29 | Eric Paré; image credits: Eric Paré]
Dunja Đuđić
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, concerts, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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37 responses to “This photographer baked a cupcake in his Canon 5D Mark IV”
James Johansson ;-)
Plot twist: he can still shoot pictures with his Canon. ?
Had no just baked it without the cupcake.. it would have probably fixed the camera. :)
Anything for publicity.
Did you even watch the video or are you just commenting
Wait a second, they ate the cupcake made with the camera body WITH FUNGUS in it?
Frédéric, si jamais tu as un problème avec ton 5Diii, ton copain peut te donner des idées. ?
Oui oui jai vu … Ca enerve hein ?
erreur 20 = cupcake ? ?
Et juste pour t’énerver un peu plus cest un 5d4… cc Eric Paré
pas énervé, ce n’est pas le miens et le 5Div était mort – ce n’était pas le cas dans les tests de résistance des reflex de Kai dans Digital rev.
Il a quand meme recuperé la batterie..??
I recently saw one used as an ash tray
Pfft needs to be a Fuji Gfx50 or a Hasselblad. 35mm isn’t big enough for a cupcake.
When it comes to cupcakes, I’d probably go with something as big as this one:
https://www.diyphotography.net/photographer-baked-cupcake-canon-5d-mark-iv/
Did they eat that mouldy cupcake?
Well, Eric tasted a bit at the end of the video. :D
That’s all a Canon cameras good for #Nikonlife!
Fanboy troll alert ?
Bell end
I would have bakes a blueberry muffin though.
How many mp is that cup cake?
An advance of early senility perhaps? Or finding ways for new clicks.
WTH!? People are so wasteful!
I struggled to save to upgrade my camera body to mkii only for some scumbag to steal it! 2 years later and I’m still trying to get enough together to buy another body…..and then you read a story like this!
His camera was already destroyed. They tried to make the best of their situation
I would’ve been happy to trade him my Mark II to bake a cupcake in
Never opening this website again.
Stupid. They could have sold that camera with the fungus for parts.
More like how many macros?
what else is canon used for
Lol! People nowadays are so rich
“Half-baked photographer ruins 5D mk4” – that should have ben the headline !
Wow, times have changed. Back in the days ADS people have eaten Cinamon and filmed that to get ack. and now people do dump sh** to their gear. I have a car maybe I should put a bathtub in to it. Wait that did this Furze dude from England allready. Maybe I have other expensive gear or can do dumb sh*** … no, sorry. Just normal crazy ;-)
Anyone can bake a cake in a camera but why would you want too
More money than sense!?
To be fair – this is more of a muffin than a cupcake.
I was never quite sure of the difference between the two. :)
I just know I prefer sweet ones. And made in a regular muffin/cupcake tray. ;)
From watching his quick videos at the beginning… it is no wonder his camera got a fungus in it. He can’t say he keeps his equipment immaculate – fungus is caused by one factor… moisture. It is exceptionally easy to protect from fungus! Minimal precautions would have protected his camera from this malady.