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Weather Sealing is a Gimmick.

Started Feb 19, 2015 | Discussions thread
Voyager03 Regular Member • Posts: 259
Re: Weather Sealing IS a Gimmick.

Olymore wrote:

It's a bit like air bags in your car.

Are you likely to use them? Hopefully not.

Will they always save you from injury ? No.

Would you rather have them than go without ? Yes.

No.  But I would rather we all didn't have airbags in cars and risk compensation was wound back a few notches.  I guess risk comepnsation may come into effect when folk have 'weathersealed' kit - because folk think it is 'safe' to use, they do.

I'm not that impressed when some dolt hoses his camera down on some Youtube footage, because you can bet they either have the attention span of a gnat and will have got the next 'latest and greatest' in a few months or forget to mention when it packs up after some slow acting internal corrosion has works it's inevitable magic.   (It is possible their drenched bodies continue to work ad infinitum, much in the same way all of us who are still using original G1's from 2008...... cameras last forever don't they?)

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