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Dont leave your 5d mk2 in the rain!

  • 08-02-2009 01:55AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭


    Looks like canon still has a few problems to iron out!

    www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/antartica-2009-worked.shtml


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,825 ✭✭✭Gambler


    I get a 404 not found there!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    You gotta go in to the What's New section to get it working.

    And tbh, I know someone involved in this group who went to the Antartic a month ahead of the rest of the group, and his MK II worked fine, he got 600 photos a charge. :)


    I doubt it was the rain tbh. It's more likely moisture that gets into the sealings, gets hit by -40 c winds, and expands.

    Not that that'll be happening here any time this weekend. Monday might be another story.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    Fajitas - rubber shirnks, gaps expand ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,105 ✭✭✭Thirdfox


    ThOnda - Water occupies less space than ice ;) (hence floating icebergs - density is 9/10ths lower - 9/10ths of icebergs are hidden under water)

    It's 3:30 am here and I'm off to bed (to go watch some live ice hockey tomorrow - ice is on the brain...)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    I bet there were some mighty pissed of people on that trip.

    Made me laugh at how his carry on was 30LB, I bet RyanAir would have a field day with excess charges!! ;)

    The other thing that made e chuckle was the comment back Canon saying the loan camera must have had water in it from a previous session. I didn't realise that the water would still be in the camera for that length of period!! Maybe t is a new marketing ploy!! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    ThOnda wrote: »
    Fajitas - rubber shirnks, gaps expand ;)

    Who said anything about rubber ;)

    The 5D II isn't fully weather sealed!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    Fajitas! wrote: »
    Who said anything about rubber ;)

    The 5D II isn't fully weather sealed!

    Niether is the a900.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭ThOnda


    Neither is 5D and I was quite scared after half day in the rain. So far so good. And I don't have a battery pack, just spare batteries.


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