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Weather-sealed gear and lens front element

Started Dec 15, 2019 | Discussions thread
TheEye
TheEye Veteran Member • Posts: 4,883
Filters with hydrophobic coatings help

Water droplets bead right off, especially the bigger ones.

Lothar-Günther Buchheim was a war correspondent in the Kriegsmarine in WW2. He is the author of the novel Das Boot which was made into an equally famous movie. I have read most of his books and his way of shooting and his equipment was discussed in his book U-Boot Krieg, if I am not mistaken. He also talks about it in his novel Das Boot. He was shooting with Leica cameras and lenses and used a piece of window leather in an effort to keep the lens as clean as possible. There are many pictures he took that were taken at high seas in stormy weather with him and the equipment being doused by seawater and ocean spray. Definitely worth an online search. If he could get good shots 80 years ago with his gear, we have no excuse to be water-shy.

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