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At the European venue for introducing the E-M1 to the press an E-M1 was placed in a lake on a tripod to show how splash proof it is. Several times a day an action photography demo sees horses and riders splash past just a few feet away. The camera is linked by wifi so to demo remote shooting capability. It's removed from the lake in the evening but put back the next day. The venue has been hired by Olympus for two weeks of demos!
Common practice for bird photographers shooting water birds. I usually try to get mine closer to the water surface even if the equipment isn't splash proof.
I discovered the built in lens hood on my OM is fairly water tight, you have to tilt the lens down to drain the water out. That's why the drainage hole in the 50-200 SWD lens hood is a good idea.
It's the image that's important, not the tools used to make it.
Common practice for bird photographers shooting water birds. I usually try to get mine closer to the water surface even if the equipment isn't splash proof.
I discovered the built in lens hood on my OM is fairly water tight, you have to tilt the lens down to drain the water out. That's why the drainage hole in the 50-200 SWD lens hood is a good idea.
WELL I NEVER (I did not know that !) ... Olympus they think of EVERYTHING
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I Lurve Walking in our Glorious Countryside; Photography;
Riding Ducati Motorbikes; Reading & Cooking ! ...
Three days ago I had a one-off opportunity to photograph some unusual mushroom colonies. Apart from a period of three hours that day, the site was behind a tall, locked gate. It was raining, had been all morning, and did so all afternoon. My access was morning only.
It was such a dull, overcast day that focusing was, at times, rather uncertain. To get some of the shots I had to put the camera almost on the ground and focus with the rear screen tilted upwards. Towards the end of the (5 minute?) shoot, the screen stopped working and I had to use the eye-level finder.
It hadn't been raining very heavily but enough for the camera and myself to get wet. (To avoid getting other lenses in my shoulder bag wet I carried the camera wrapped in a supermarket carrier bag when not actually using it).
When I got home I wiped the camera dry with tissue and checked the rear screen. It would work only when fairly fully extended. Having recently had the body repaired because of electrical faults, I thought it was having to go back again. Fortunately, after half an hour so, full function returned to the screen. The only reasonable explanation is that a drop of water penetrated far enough to short it out.
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