Well on Sunday My D7100 and Sigma 150-500 went for an unexpected test.My friend and I went looking for Birds and Deer at our local Conservation area 0% chance of rain said the weather network(never trust a weatherman). So we did find a nice Buck then proceeded to the far end of the park on Lake Ontario. Walking to the creek mouth I turned around and it was extremely Dark sky's to the west of us and coming fast. so we backtracked fast but not fast enough. About 45 mins left to get to the parking lot the sky's opened up I've only seen that much rain come down in Cuba and Florida. Within a min the water on the trail was over my shoes and all we had to cover the cameras and lenses was our T-Shirts.
I shut mine off right away and shortened the lens to 150mm. When we finally made it back to the Trucks we were drenched cameras and lenses were wet. I had a sweat shirt in the truck and dried of the outside of both camera and lens quick see ya to Andrew and I was gone home.
I got home and towel dried the camera and lens again then took the lens off to see if water made it into the lens all was dry :encouragement: so I took the battery out and opened all the compartments for the electronic plug ins. no water :encouragement: Then I took my clothes off had a shower and hung my pants and T-shirt over the front bench we have on outside at the entrance to the house.
I still wanted to just leave them both alone but not packed into a bag so I left them to air dry.(not sure if they slept well with no plush bed to sleep in
) tested them both yesterday when I got home from work both worked as they should :encouragement: But I still felt like something could happen, So I left them to air dry one more night (still no plush bed for them)
When i got home today I tried them out again and YAHOO all is good :encouragement:
So from now on I'll carry a small weatherproof cover for the Pair I just happen to have on it came with my Camera Bag that will fit in my back pocket of my jeans
I shut mine off right away and shortened the lens to 150mm. When we finally made it back to the Trucks we were drenched cameras and lenses were wet. I had a sweat shirt in the truck and dried of the outside of both camera and lens quick see ya to Andrew and I was gone home.
I got home and towel dried the camera and lens again then took the lens off to see if water made it into the lens all was dry :encouragement: so I took the battery out and opened all the compartments for the electronic plug ins. no water :encouragement: Then I took my clothes off had a shower and hung my pants and T-shirt over the front bench we have on outside at the entrance to the house.
I still wanted to just leave them both alone but not packed into a bag so I left them to air dry.(not sure if they slept well with no plush bed to sleep in
) tested them both yesterday when I got home from work both worked as they should :encouragement: But I still felt like something could happen, So I left them to air dry one more night (still no plush bed for them) When i got home today I tried them out again and YAHOO all is good :encouragement:
So from now on I'll carry a small weatherproof cover for the Pair I just happen to have on it came with my Camera Bag
that will fit in my back pocket of my jeans
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