Taking shots in the wind and rain!!

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I was covering an event for Maggies Centre in Glasgow today. It was a 10 mile "Life Walk", basically a big sponsored walk to raise funds for the charity.

Anyone who was in the Glasgow area today will know how bad the weather was, winds in excess of 60mph and continual torrential rain. I had my camera in a plastic bag with a hole cut out for the lens to peek out. I was getting problems with rain and condensation on the lens.

Is there much that can be done in conditions like that? can anyone recommend a decent cover to protect the camera?

I'm covering the same event in Edinburgh next weekend, fingers crossed the weather is a bit better!!

Dave
 
Lens hood helps keep the rain off but it does depend on how horizontal it is - if you're shooting into the wind there's not a lot you can do about it really.
 
There is always a 1D....tempting eh! ;)

There is inevitably always going to be leakage unless you invest in an underwater housing! There was an article in Outdoor Photography about Nigel Millard's work covering the RNLI..if I remember he used a wet weather cover but I can't for the life of me remember it's name, you might find it with a bit of googling!!
 
I covered marathons, triathlons and similar walks last year. The only things i made sure i had were lots of the large sandwich bags. Tesco's large fits right over a 70-200mm F2.8 and a 1dmk2n. And had three to four large clothes. Laterly i bought a cheap golf rain suit and cut the arm off the jacket then split it along the seam. This works great and i'm still using it at all the football and motorcycle racing i cover.

Hope this helps.
 
I was drenched today covering Brownies planting bulbs - watch out for it in the Gazette next week Dave - it was torrential at the time.
 
awp said:
I was drenched today covering Brownies planting bulbs - watch out for it in the Gazette next week Dave - it was torrential at the time.
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I'll keep an eye out, the weather was horrendous though, not much better today!

so much for global warming!
 
Army surplus goretext jackets... Each arm makes a great rain cover ;)

Having said that I just throw a shammy leather over the lens and camera when I'm shooting motorsport.
 
Check out Rain Sleeves from Speed Graphic.

Pacamacs for cameras, and only a fiver for 2.

Alternatively Storm Jackets, £40.00 from Warehouse Express.
 
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