The northeast part of the US over the past 5 days has experienced some very inclement weather, from heavy rain to thick and saturating mists. Though I really didn't want to go treking around with my camera in these conditions, the light was wonderful and very dramatic at times and I knew I could get some outstanding photos.
I hesitated shooting outdoors knowing that digital cameras are sensitive electronic devices that can be damaged if they get wet. I'm wondering if people have experience with shooting in this kind of inclement weather and how they've protected their equipment from harm. Is it enough to just wrap the camera in a plastic grocery bag or are there other measures that need to be taken.
Thanks...Jeff
I have a friend who shoots a lot of shots in inclement weather... He does waterfall photos... inclement weather is often the best time to shoot them.....
He obviously uses a tripod for all his shots and he has mounted some sort of bracket on his tripod to hold an umbrella.... He doesnt' shoot digital, but he has a ton of expensive 35mm and medium format stuff.
if you are not using a tripod, maybe an umbrella is all you need :)
I am so happy :-) ;-) to bring back the photo of my raingear that I am using with the 10D, plastic bag and plastic water bottle taped together.
RainGear
Thanks Lionel, your image is just what I needed to see to determine what I need to do to get good camera protection. It looks to be heavy duty protection, and knowing my compulsive nature, I would probaby even put another plastic bag over that...lol. Thanks for your imput.
[quote=lionelm]I am so happy :-) ;-) to bring back the photo of my raingear that I am using with the 10D, plastic bag and plastic water bottle taped together.
RainGear
Lionel makes a nice one.. I only used a freezer weight ziploc-type plastic bag, and zipped it closed to only let the lens poke thru the opening a tad bit. I like Lionel's better, but I did end up with some decent snow storm shots this winter in Massachusetts. :P
I have an adapter and UV filter on the front of my lens most of the time anyway, and I usually go with the freezer ziploc as well. You can use a rubberband to secure it around the adapter if you want (and aren't going to be taking it in and out of the bag a lot).
BTW, the addition of the water bottle looks like a good idea. I've had a problem keeping snow/water off the front filter before.
I used a regular lemonade bottle. I needed that becasue of the zoom (28-135) that extend a little bit.
And actually it was a good plastic bottle, pretty soft, I can 'flatten' the thing in a suitcase and it will come back to this shape after.
The bottle can 'slide' on the zoom and you have to do it on wide angle otherwise you see the border of the bottle like in the first shot of the set here, and becasue I still wanted to protect the front on the lens in telephoto position.
These are all the shots I took that day with my nice gear ;-)
As you can see in the first one straight from the cam .. I was not handling very correctly the exposure that day, it was the begining. I used levels in the following shots of the set.
These ideas look great and seem to be good ideas when I know there will be bad weather.
What I have always done is kept a shower cap in my camera case, just in case I run into some unexpected weather, it fits very well around the camera and lens.
