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Weather Sealing is a Gimmick.

Started Feb 19, 2015 | Discussions thread
jim stirling
jim stirling Veteran Member • Posts: 7,356
Re: Weather Sealing is a Gimmick.

Scotsman wrote:

mpgxsvcd wrote:

I have yet to see any real world examples where someone has shown that a non-weather sealed camera failed in a manner that would be covered under a weather sealed warranty. If you show me a real world situation like that then I will eat crow.

Then get out your knife and fork. Two Nikon DSLRs failed during a photo walk where we got caught in rain storm. The EM-5 wasn't phased.

Random failures of 2 cameras{ when there are literally millions of them around } is irrelevant, as we do not know the condition of cameras the maintenance or usage the photographers could have opened a battery compartment or changed lens at the wrong time or damaged the cameras etc etc . I am not saying this is the case just giving a possible scenario, cameras do not seem to go through rigorous controlled comparative testing in this area and it could get very expensive for a website to test every camera to destruction

Had it quit you bet your weather sealing it would have been covered because it wasn't that much water.

Want to bet on that ?

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/55245520

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/54941930

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