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Olympus 40-150mm f2.8 does Costa Rica

Started Nov 8, 2015 | Discussions thread
tkelly11
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Re: Weathersealing, questions

Stefandreas wrote:

These are just wonderful. I will go to Costa Rica next July and want to take an EM-1 and some standard, non-weathersealed lenses (Ply 9-18 and Oly 45,1,7 and 40-150 (cheap one). Do you think weathersealing really makes a big difference in terms of lenses ? Of course the glass will be protected by a filter. But what can happen to a lens if it gets a little wet ? I understand that a body should be weatherproof but for the lens I cannot imagine what could happen in the mist/humidity. What do you think ? Is it really mandatory to bring weathersealed lenses ?

Kind regards,

Stefan

Thanks Stefan, very kind! And yes, those lenses should do nicely in CR but a weather-sealed lens wouldn't be a terrible thing (although in July it might be better than what we had!), particularly as you have the EM1. The only other alternative might be either the Panny 100-300mm or Oly 75-300 as there were numerous opportunities for far away monkeys, toucans, sloths plus the 100-300mm focuses surprisingly closely. Only limitation being the aperture and lack of weather sealing.

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