Timeline for What makes a camera 'weather sealed'?
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| Aug 1, 2013 at 18:23 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @Mattdm - cool, thanks for helping improve my answer. | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 18:12 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @mattdm - changed the word to humidity to make it more clear. | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 18:12 | history | edited | AJ Henderson♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2013 at 18:10 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @mattdm - By general moisture, I mean the humidity of the air. Any large opening is going to let moist air in quickly. If you leave your windows open, and it's 90% humidity outside, it's going to be humid in your house even though the roof keeps it from raining on you. | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 18:01 | comment | added | Patrick Hurley | Sorry my reading skills seem to be deteriorating :-) | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 17:51 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @PatrickHurley - thanks for re-iterating that, but I did mention it in my answer. Front filter could refer to a screw in or a gel holder. Only screw in would complete the weather proofing in those cases. | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 17:47 | comment | added | Patrick Hurley | It is also worth noting that a number of lens that some lens (e.g. the 16-35 f/2.8) require a front filter to complete the weather seal -- check your owner's manual. | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 16:34 | history | edited | AJ Henderson♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2013 at 16:32 | comment | added | AJ Henderson♦ | @mattdm - have you had a non-weather sealed body fail in similar situations? The issue is that there is nothing that will prevent general moisture from entering the main camera body. It might not get direct water, but the moisture itself is the bigger problem. I will alter my answer to indicate it is severely compromised rather than useless though, because it does make some difference. I actually only meant to imply that it isn't considered weather-sealed when it isn't a full system, but my wording was poor. | |
| Aug 1, 2013 at 14:22 | history | answered | AJ Henderson♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |