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Weather-sealed gear and lens front element

Started Dec 15, 2019 | Discussions thread
Brian Wadie
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Re: Weather-sealed gear and lens front element

"For those of you who shoot a lot in the rain or in conditions where water is splashing a lot (on a speed boat, wind-driven ocean surf, etc.) and you use weather-sealed gear how do you manage to not have problems with water drops on the front of the lens? Do you not care and just shoot with the drops there?
I have seen videos of people spraying their weather-sealed cameras and lenses with a water hose and I even saw one of someone who dunked it in a bucket of water."

When shooting off our local beach its often during a "Named Storm" and there will be sand, salt spray, seaweed and other muck flying about. Under those conditions I will always use a protection filter as the front element requires constant cleaning. (I vaguely remember reading somewhere that most if not all camera manufacturers state that for full weather proofing it is necessary to use the filter)

When it gets too mucky I will rinse it under a fresh water tap but always keep the filter on during the rinse

So far I've not had a problem with any of my "weather sealed" cameras, Olympus or Canon

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