Cameras in adverse weather
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Let me say that if you’re taking any camera you can’t afford to pay cash to replace (i.e., it’s more/less disposable) around water, it ought to be fully insured.
If you watch pro sport shooters at say, football games, when it rains they have covers on the cameras.
Not sure of Nikon, but with Canon a lot of their L lenses have a rubber seal around the mount, though they still need a filter to be truly protected in the rain.
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A picture is thousand words that takes less than a second while a thousand words is a picture that takes a month.
What David and Buzz said.
I don’t hesitate to expose my 1D and L lenses to light to moderate rain.
But I do wipe it down periodically.
In heavy rain it’s covered by a Kata rain cover.
You can expose it to severe cold as well.
This shot was taken in about -30 degrees, it was sold cold the mechanical parts were starting to grind.
My philosophy is.
Photography is to be enjoyed. If your worried about your gear when the weather isn’t nice, your not enjoying it.Stay home or have it fully insured.
Hey, thanks for the thoughts. My new D300s will be here tomorrow.
Sounds like everything should be ok from a weather standpoint if I don’t get too crazy with downpours. (Still, I don’t know if I will ever get over my fear of salt air and electronics directly at the surf line).Great images posted above, as well. Thanks for the examples.
Cheers,
Aaron
Great points so far.
… When its cold, be careful about bringing lenses and bodies into the warm inside of a house or car, you will be dead in the water for 2 hours waiting for everything to de-fog. I learned that the hard way a couple times.
Eric, to avoid this, simply place your gear into a gallon size ziplock or similar large seal-able plastic bag a few minutes from going inside. The condensation will always occur on the outermost surface (bag) and you gear will stay dry under plastic. Helpful in the tropics too (dry+cool air conditioned hotel room —> humid + warm outside air). In either case, let the temps equalize (usually only a half hour), remove camera and lens from bag, and yer’ good to go.
db
Yeah John, he is a most impressive buck. Near as I can tell 17 or 18 pts when counting stickers.
I had to sit in and behind a snow bank up to my crotch in the snow for about 2hrs in -20 (-30 with wind chill) to get anything worthwhile. At one point my entire right leg fell asleep and I was too afraid to move lest I bust myself after waiting so long…
lol sometimes I think Im certifiable.
Heres another look at him
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