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Weather Sealing is a Gimmick.

Started Feb 19, 2015 | Discussions thread
wansai Regular Member • Posts: 411
Re: Weather Sealing is a Gimmick.

The issue you have is with their legal fineprint seemingly absolving them of any liability making it seem like they have little to no confidence in their implementation. in practice, the em1 is quite a lot more resistant than their conservative legal would imply.

from their pov it makes a lot of sense why they'd word it like that. the feature will and does work but if it fails they have little to no real way to determine how that failure came about, whether it was user error or manufacturing error.

it's just a way to manage liability and in cases where it is obvious a user error, olympus or any company has full legal discretion to deny a claim.

the feature itself though, lives up to expectations. i honestly think olympus is confident enough that they wont be getting weather related repair claims.

if it sounds shady, sure, but remember you're dealing with legal. it's always shady. have you taken a look at your life insurance policy fine print? it's chalk full of 1001 ways they wont entertain your claim.

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