You may remember our post on DigitalRev’s Hardcore Durability Test on the Canon 7D a while back ago. Now, a US Army soldier, Alex Jansen, took his Pentax K5 and K7 and buries it in sand, then washes it down in the shower. Pentax, along with Olympus, are considered legendary when it comes to their weathersealing, even more so than Canon and Nikons.
Thanks to DIY Photography for the link.
So readers, what is the most extreme weather condition that you have shot in and with which camera?
By the way, here is an example of Olympus’s weathersealing capability, where the photographer left his Olympus E3 and E5 dSLR outside all night in -10 degree Celcius! Works fine the next day!
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whoa!
Im shoothing sunrise in Québec at -25 temperature with my D90 and it survived briliantly.
Im shoothing sunrise in Québec at -25 temperature and it survived.
My D7000 has been with me on a mountaineering trip with -10* temperatures, 30mph winds and a driving snowstorm and still functioned fine. It also survived the trip to Everest Base Camp and worked fine despite the clouds of dust. Temperatures got down to about -10* there as well.
Beat this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCT-YMgjm9k
But the 7D doesn’t work after their torture test. So it really proves nothing.