Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I did a football game Saturday in the rain (tail end of the hurricane) using the R8 and a 400mm lens. I did not have any protection on the camera or lens. I just wiped the rain off every now and then with a microfibre cloth. Camera functioned perfectly in the rain, as a pro level camera like the R8 should. In really hard rain, I use a zip up plastic bag taped to the lens hood which covers the camera as well. This is the type of bag that blankets or comforters come in and is fitted with a zipper. Worked great the last time I used it in heavy rain. Regards, Robert At 07:58 PM 9/20/99 +0100, Johnny Deadman wrote: >> When it's _really_ raining over here (as opposed to a normal 'soft day'), >> my Leicas stay at home and my Nikonos is in its element! I've used it far >> more as the ultimate foul weather camera than for underwater photography. >> It's also a great beach camera. No worries about sand - just wash it off >> under a tap. Try that with an M3........... :-) > >Why are people so fussy about photographing in rain? It's GREAT. If you are >worried, the perfect guard for your camera is a free plastic shopping bag. >Unscrew your filter, place the bag over the camera, then screw the filter >back in. This will chop out a perfect hole. Remove the filter, take out the >now redundant bit of bag, screw in the filter, securing the bag once more, >and GO GO GO. You can do something similar at the back for the viewfinder. A >bit of gaffer tape will improve matters even more. > >Nikonos, pshaw. > >-- >Johnny Deadman > >"The writer who writes a good book while sitting in torn breeches should >first mend his breeches" - Montaigne > >