Wet Weather Shooting

[Mistry99]

looking at yesterdays bad rain at silverstone in the moto gp i was wandering what people use/ do to keep the equipment dry and safe.

whats out there that's good but affordable but something that lets you take pictures and have control over the camera, not looking at underwater stuff???

 

[adamus]

optech rainsleeve?

 

[jacob12_1993]

optech rainsleeves are nice and cheap, the think tank hydrophobia is the dogs

 

[DazJW]

I use Op-tech rainsleeves.
They make seeing the histogram very difficult and you need an elastic band or two to stop them sliding either off the end of your lens so they appear in your shots or back along it so they don't protect the lens, but they're something like two for a fiver and most of the other options are material which I don't really trust after having a supposedly waterproof jacket get soaked through. A few have open backs too which I don't fancy with a camera body that isn't weather sealed.

Given the low price you might as well try them.

 

[johnnypanic]

Those optech rainsleeves look very useful, so have ordered a set. Thanks for the headsup about these

 

[adamus]

no problem.

 

[neil_g]

i always find the optechs fog up quite bad. theres an active thread about rain covers in the sports speciality section at the moment if that helps.

 

[scottthehat]

buy a pentax.

 

[dd1989]

buy a pentax.

Or an e-3 / e-5. Totally sealed too. Few guys on dpreview forums posted some shots from a very wet race using the Oly kit. No silly bags or protective covers in sight.

 

[neil_g]

buy a pentax.

or a 1D and 70-200 IS.. whats your point

 

[scottthehat]

or a 1D and 70-200 IS.. whats your point

maybe so, how many videos do you see of canons taking a soaking, lots of pentax ones

 

[dd1989]

^ The Luminous Landscape trip to the arctic saw a 25% failure rate in the FF Canon bodies due to poor environmental sealing.

 

[Nuffles]

^ The Luminous Landscape trip to the arctic saw a 25% failure rate in the FF Canon bodies due to poor environmental sealing.

Oly fanboy The 5D is a studio camera and although it has basic weather sealing it isn't designed to be used in full on wet weather conditions. The 1D series is as weather sealed as you can get, and the 7D isn't bad.

Take an Ariel Atom to the Moab and you're surprised when it gets stuck? Different tools for different jobs.

 

[Nikon newbie]

I ended up leaving my gear in the bag throughout all of race day on Sunday as it was just plain miserable. Heck, I didn't even resort to taking the POS Casio out of our bags!!!

 

[tdodd]

Oly fanboy The 5D is a studio camera and although it has basic weather sealing it isn't designed to be used in full on wet weather conditions.

There was me thinking the 5D(2) was supposed to be a landscape photographer's delight. I guess it never rains when shooting landscapes. What about weddings? Where does it say it is exclusively a "studio" camera?