Well I have faith in the weather sealing. The issue to me is that this guy is not dealing with weather, he is just walking out in salt water. Weather sealing is something like rain or wind blowing dust and such. I won't be surprised if he is in the market for a new camera.
Just the other day we went to shoot Elephant Seals right after the huge storm in California. We got down to the beach walking with the docent amidst a heavy downpour of rain that eventually turned in to hail. I pulled my K10D and DA* 50-135 out from under the pancho many times to take shots. It definitely got wet, but held up well. I didn't keep it out in the rain the whole time, just during shooting itself, then back under the pancho. I like the footsteps, it just suffers from a very bland sky. The setting sun shot suffers from the same thing. There are days when the weather just doesn't quite give us what we are hoping. -- Bruce Monday, January 7, 2008, 5:27:03 AM, you wrote: DS> ...do you have in the K10D's weather sealing? DS> Me? Not much :-) DS> However, I met up with a group of local photogs at the beach this DS> weekend for a sunset shoot. Lo & behold there was another K10D user DS> who had a lot of faith in the 72 weather seals (~180kb): DS> <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2212/2174405423_1ed3c92b8b_o.jpg> DS> Later on he was shooting with his back to the surf, took a step DS> backwards only to find there was no ground underfoot. He and his DS> camera got a good soaking. I didn't get a shot of the actual fall, but DS> here is the aftermath (~145kb). DS> <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2172/2175143626_fb0962800e_o.jpg> DS> And here are a couple of my better efforts from the trip: DS> (~111kb) DS> <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2037/2175205476_62fc5babc1_o.jpg> DS> K10D, Voightlander 125mm f2.5 Macro, 1/500 @ f5.6 DS> (~131kb) DS> <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2122/2174436253_eba61dd08f_o.jpg> DS> K10D, DA*16-50 f2.8 @ 16mm, 20 seconds @ f18 DS> As always any & all comments welcome. DS> Cheers, DS> Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
