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Well, although you can't see my K10/DA* 50-135 on the picture, you can surely tell it was pouring and them some. This is at Niagara Falls, Ontario. More pictures taken on the Maid if the Mist also. No problemo. All you need is a soft cloth to wipe the rain in front of the lens (the filter on the lens, of course...)

This is more of a snapshot I know. And the focus is reeeeal bad...but it WAS pouring (and the falls near also...)

Oh! and of course, the combo was running smooooth for the remaining of the trip..and then some....

Convinced?



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Jack Simpson said:
Well, so much for the "big drought" I am always hearing about from
the Aussie tourists coming through the shop :o .... especially when
it is peeing down here ;D
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Sydney has been experienceing "normal" weather over the last 9-12 months, ie about average, or a little above, rainfall and a normally cold winter. Out west it is a little different with some areas still needing "normal" (what ever that is) rain.

I think you will find the La Nina has well and truly kicked in to give us this normal weather pattern over the eastern part of Australia as well as the sunspot activity has ceased which is making for more normal temperatures and a general global cooling effect.
Jack Simpson said:
Cheers,

Jack
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I can't seems to find the original post, but it's about a Malaysia nature photographer dropping his K10D and DA Lens into mud during one of his trip. This was before DA* about a few months after K10D was released. Here are the photos I managed to find;


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Credits goes to the original photographer from photomalaysia
 
I went out to take pictures in my yard of the storm. Heavy rain and very high winds (50mph+). It rained so hard, we got 26"+ of rain in 2 days. k10 + DA50-135



He was not too happy:







Dog being dog. Barking at the manatees (what storm?)

 
Camera and lens both got soaked. (so did the photographer)

I would not have tried this if not for weather sealing. Body and lens were very wet everywhere. All around the buttons, lens focus/zoom rings, mount, etc...

Not any problems afterward. Once inside, i just dried off with some paper towel. good as new.
 
That's me in the first photo and my K20 and DA50-135mm performed faultlessly and were fine. Paul, who was with us on the day took some shots specifically of the wet cameras. Perhaps he'll see this post and put up some images.

Guy
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This sequence is from the same shoot with Guy, Lance and Paul. Wet enough for you? :)
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I never saw the wheatherproof flash, are there any?

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I have a bunch of those silly self-watering pots hanging from the patio roof- I while back I managed to whack my head on one whilst standing up from taking some close up shots of a red back (black widow) spider- bumping it saw a stream of water like a garden hose spill out over my 10d, which showed no ill effects.

I was surprised that the Sig 24-70 (not advertised as weather sealed) seemed not to suffer from the dip either.

I have no fear of rain etc with my 10d.
 
I don't think there is any real use for a weatherproof flash as the refelctoin of the flash on dropletsof water, on snowand on dus will have serious effects on metering. And if you overcome that by manual shooting the object I mentioned just reflect too much light compared to the background
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Kesha270057 said:
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Fine red dust everywhere...got some on my front element and thought it was a hot pixel :-)

I've also used it to take pics of waterfalls. I just keep the lens pointed down to keep drop from landing on the front element. The camera gets pretty wet...
 
ALl

I want to thank you. You have been great with your support.

I have pointed to this thread in other forums to support the cause of a weather proof SLR.

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I noticed that most of these are K10Ds and K20Ds. A couple of stories and pics of K200Ds would also be nice if the intent of the original poster is to show ruggedness of the current Pentax lineup to other people. :)
 
1 month ago, went to Vancouver Island with the K10D and a few lenses. On a whales/sea lions/otters/bears boat tour, I took the K10D and the DA 50-200 out in the driving rain. Camera performed flawlessly in the rain for 2 hours; by the third hour, it started cycling through all sorts of menus and settings by itself. By the end of the third hour, all it did was power on; nothing.

I don't know how water got in, but my 50-200 showed no signs of moisture on the inside (from my eye on the outside) at any time. And the sensor itself appeared to be working fine, even when the camera was malfunctioning; I got a few more shots off before everything went kaput and they look fine.

Sent it into the Pentax repair, who sent it to Pentax Canada proper; got a report back from the repair people last week that Pentax said it was beyond economical repair. Pentax Canada offered me a K20D for 999.99+15 shipping + tax. I bought my K10D for 800; can't afford the 1100+ at this point.

I bought a K200D today. Nothing like my K10D in terms of handling; good enough, I guess.

Guess I'm bagging it from now on in the rain!

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