Chuck,
You should read Michael Reichmann's comments about this on Luminous
Landscape.
There were 8X as many Canon's being (N=45) used as Nikons
N=5)...before making judgements,
one should gather a statistically valid data set (same nos. of camera
bodies for both Marques).
-Stephen.
On Mar 6, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Listar wrote:
> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:23:40 -0500
> From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [OM] Re: What worked and what didnt.
>
> It doesn't sound very auspicious that light rain caused so much camera
> mortality... "There were a couple of 1D MKII and 5D's" and "Three
> Canon
> 5D's died that day..." Sounds like 150% failure rate. Notable
> perhaps
> that the Nikon D200's survived and they have environmental seals like
> the E-1. However, six 1Ds Mark II's also died along with a number of
> "L" lenses. All of these things are bristling with rubber seals
> including the lenses which have O ring seals. Must be the rain in the
> Falklands is corrosive and eats rubber seals.
>
> I was thinking about a rain cover a few months ago. Maybe I'll think
> about it a little more. I've been lucky so far. Never had to
> shoot in
> any rain beyond a 5 minute sprinkle.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
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