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Battle At F-Stop Ridge: Ad For The Camera Store Goes Viral (VIDEO)

Battle At F Stop Ridge

The Huffington Post   First Posted: 05/18/11 08:21 PM ET Updated: 07/18/11 06:12 AM ET

An advertisement for a Canadian camera store depicting a fierce machine gun, er, camera battle is going viral.

"Battle at F-Stop Ridge," a promotional video for The Camera Store, a 32-employee photography shop in Calgary, features eight employees in a field battling it out with tripods, cameras, lenses and a hand grenade (or, in this case, a flash).

Jordan Drake, who runs The Camera Store's video department, told The Huffington Post that the video took two days to produce and only one day to shoot. He spent about seven hours editing it.

Drake said that as of this morning, the video had about 1,000 views. This afternoon, it's been viewed almost 11,000 times. "It's just kind of exploded," he said.

Don't be surprised if the video reminds you of any movies you've seen. Drake said he was inspired by the camera work in "United 93" and "Saving Private Ryan."

Watch "Battle at F-Stop Ridge" and let us know what you think of it in the comments below:

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07:24 PM on 05/21/2011
Poor guy had a single shot Polaroid Instamatic against those fully automatic 35mm's. He didn't stand a chance!

Nice work.
11:33 PM on 05/19/2011
Good job to Chris Niccolls as well! You guys make some nice vids!
12:25 PM on 05/19/2011
From Rush to Bob and Doug McKenzie to hockey one thing is certain, Canadians are very entertaining.
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carlgt1
11:28 AM on 05/19/2011
that's how the papparazzi tracked Princess Diana....
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cavejunctionboy
Not me again !
02:53 AM on 05/19/2011
I you're a woking photographer who had to fo fight of a picture, you'll get it.
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cachinnatrix
Cachinnation makes the whirled unbound
12:40 AM on 05/19/2011
That was very funny!

So many EARNEST people on the HuffPost blogs.... I'm going to have a martini and a cigarette so I won't live to be 90 and have to suffer with you tiresome bores.
12:50 AM on 05/19/2011
hey you laughing trickster ... I'll have a cocktail with you ... and before you call me a bore I'll show you my gernades and.we can take some photos.and
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cachinnatrix
Cachinnation makes the whirled unbound
12:53 AM on 05/19/2011
Oooh, you're explosively funny!
11:40 PM on 05/18/2011
Did he die?
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Alicia Westberry
college student & Wordpress blog/ website owner
11:38 PM on 05/18/2011
It's innovative. I've gotta give them that.
11:27 PM on 05/18/2011
Cool. That's my Camera store.
10:24 PM on 05/18/2011
At first, I thought this was creative and well done...and then I thought, wait a minute, these are cameras pretending to be guns. I hate guns, so the coolness factor is gone. There's nothing violent or destructive about photography...why do we need to portray it in that way?
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Theusernamejoe Was Taken
10:50 PM on 05/18/2011
That's why you'll never be a marketer. :) Actually, I agree in a way, but it was a spoof on war, but with cameras... as in, wouldn't it be nice if this is the kind of "wars" we had? Also, I don't think we should stop mixing the genres of something peaceful with something violent in entertainment.
10:16 PM on 05/18/2011
clean
09:26 PM on 05/18/2011
i'm a photographer. and this is amazing.
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Mike Clark II
memphis, journalism major. nuff said
09:24 PM on 05/18/2011
i liked it
09:14 PM on 05/18/2011
Simply hilarious, ha ha ha!
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SLM2003
09:10 PM on 05/18/2011
This is too funny!!