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02/10/2007 09:38:54 PM · #1 |
| Weather is bad and tomorrow i want to go out and shoot. With all the wind and the rain about, is my camera going to be ok ? Will it survive a little water on the lens. How best can i protect it. |
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02/11/2007 12:05:13 AM · #2 |
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02/11/2007 12:08:08 AM · #3 |
I marched in a parade with my camera in pouring rain - just held it up under my umbrella and kept a dry cloth (folded baby diaper) draped over it. Didn't hurt a thing. Obviously you don't want it to get too wet, but using it on a wet day shouldn't hurt it.
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02/11/2007 12:28:09 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by idnic:
I marched in a parade with my camera in pouring rain - just held it up under my umbrella and kept a dry cloth (folded baby diaper) draped over it. Didn't hurt a thing. Obviously you don't want it to get too wet, but using it on a wet day shouldn't hurt it. |
Oh now that would be a shot. Cindi carrying a camera with a diaper on it...hmmm!! ROFLMFAO!! Are you sure you didn't see your photo in the 'It's a crazy world' section of the newspaper?
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02/11/2007 12:38:34 AM · #5 |
What also works is a thin, clear, plastic shower cap...the kind you can sometimes get in a hotel room for free. Howerver, these days, they are getting harder and harder to find in hotels.
Anyway, insert the camera body into the shower cap with the elastic around the lens with just the end of it exposed (except for longer lenses). You can then tear a small hole for the viewfinder.
It's not a 100%, total waterproof solution, but it helps. Couple this technique with an umbrella and you have a fairly dry camera.
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02/11/2007 12:52:09 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Judi:
Oh now that would be a shot. Cindi carrying a camera with a diaper on it...hmmm!! ROFLMFAO!! Are you sure you didn't see your photo in the 'It's a crazy world' section of the newspaper? |
Gosh I hope nobody shot me that day! I was soaked and unhappy! lol Not sure why a diaper, but I was looking for something to keep in the camera bag a couple of years ago, to wipe my brow when I was shooting in the summer or wipe my camera when I was at the beach.. whatever.. and found a package of diapers one day and that just worked, clean, white, absorbant!! I wash them often, but there is always one tucked into the camera bag. :)
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02/11/2007 03:11:30 AM · #7 |
I have had to photograph a few hurricanes and tornado's in my time - I usually wrap the camera up in a plastic bag with some moisture absorbent crystals - All depends on how bad the weather really is...
This was shot from inside the car 
And this is me shot with my camera taped up - The wind was gusting to over 70mph so there is a bit of camera shake!
But you can still get pretty good pics from such things - I know a photographer who shoots lots of weather and he never tapes his Nikon cameras up - Just wipes them down with a cloth afterwards - Not too sure I would risk it!
Here is a final image with the tapped up camera. Good luck tomorrow...
Message edited by author 2007-02-11 03:12:08. |
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02/11/2007 03:36:02 AM · #8 |
Alternatively, buy a weather sealed camera ;-)
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02/11/2007 03:43:41 AM · #9 |
I use 2-gallon Ziplock freezer baggies: cut a semicircle out of the bottom that you can stretch over your lens so it protrudes a little, and the baggie's large enough to use your hands inside of. You can even use the viewfinder through the baggie OK, if it's really messy. I bought one of those raincoats-for-cameras thingies but it was a waste of money.
R.
Message edited by author 2007-02-11 03:44:12.
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