i won't be doing this with my 1D MkIII

buckas said:
had both my cameras in rain worse than that, i shoot rallies!



and our survey says, ehhh uhhhh - terminal velocity...
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Yep I did physics, and it tought me that rain drops falling at terminal velocity is about 10m/s, the water coming out of that tap is low pressure and about 1m/s.

Sorry not trying to get technical- just honestly thought I had a point that water falling from a couple of miles might have a bit more force than out of a tap!!
 
grumpybadger said:
I've popped my old 1DII and my current 500 f/4 in the shower before. How else do you wash salt spray off?
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Same method I use to wash off salt. Precautions are limited to switching camera off and making sure the shower isn't on a power setting. If the salt is particularly bad the buttons sometimes get a quick brush with an old soft toothbrush (least I tell the wife it was an old one :runaway:)
 
topcatproduction said:
Yep I did physics, and it tought me that rain drops falling at terminal velocity is about 10m/s, the water coming out of that tap is low pressure and about 1m/s.

Sorry not trying to get technical- just honestly thought I had a point that water falling from a couple of miles might have a bit more force than out of a tap!!
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negative dude. its more to do with the hydrostatic paradox than it is velocity or anything.... wow mI'm ****ed and I'm going (supposedly lolz) to the tempest rally tomoxz. ...
take the running water in that video... effectively that is a coloumn of water and as a result at it base it has a pressure as a result equalt to the column of water it has upon it with regard to it's highet (the tap)... whereas a skanky piece of rain water has minimal pressure effect especially when you think that that particular droplet has to hit a weathersealed button in oreder to penertrait it. unliekely. as most of the buttons are perpendicular to the velocity of the droplet, thus the instantaneous pressure at impact is negligible.... and thus the force of water from a tap has far more of an impact than a rain drop (or many).


pow.
 
I read that back and it made NO sence to me.

good luck reading it.
 
I have submerged two D2x bodies in a river - they were fine after a quick wipe...We also had one of our students jet-wash a D1 after it got trampled in the bottom of a muddy trench on a surveillance exercise...again it was OK...(but we still beat him with a Manfrotto monopod for his utter stupidity).
Rain or tap water...it matters not...top-end cameras are designed to withstand it. The only problems I've had with prolonged rain is the eypiece misting up on my old D2x bodies and not being able to see the subjects - but then that's what AF is for!
 
the 1d seems pretty watertight as a body, but if it's submerged with a non sealed lens on is it necessarily game over?
 
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