Comments on: Pentax Vs. Afghanistan: One US Soldier Puts His Camera’s Weather Sealing To The Test

By: Philipp Blum

Philipp Blum — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 11:26:00 +0000

You can do something similar with an Olympus E-3 or E-5: http://youtu.be/tZwAQ4WHbuM and http://youtu.be/DxoYP749CzQ, pretty impressive!

At the last Photokina, Olympus demonstrated such a thing (holding it under water) live, then I went to Canon’s booth and asked them if they would demonstrate it.. “No, it’s pretty weather sealed but….”, funny to see how they have trust in their own product.

By: Alex Merrill

Alex Merrill — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:49:00 +0000

This guy shoots some great photos… Do check out his posts over on the Pentax forum if you are even slightly interested in combat photography. Really good stuff.

By: Tobias Solem

Tobias Solem — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 21:40:00 +0000

He meant the lid covering the lens, not the hood itself. :)

By: Brian Reese

Brian Reese — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:36:00 +0000

Do you not use lens hoods? Is there some “hipster” coolness to not using lens hoods I should know about?

By: Paul Monaghan

Paul Monaghan — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:27:00 +0000

I shot pentax, then nikon FF and back to pentax.. I like pentax glass and ergonomics better.

By: Nathan Hamler

Nathan Hamler — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:54:00 +0000

eh, i still wouldn’t shoot pentax….let me qualify that…i USED to shoot pentax…k10d…..then i woke up and moved to nikon….far better glass, and far better cameras…

By: David Woollatt

David Woollatt — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:01:00 +0000

Totally agree, love my K-5 wouldn’t change to anything else…unless of course the K-3 that is rumoured comes out :)

By: Olle Braconier

Olle Braconier — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:03:00 +0000

I’ve put my D3+24-70 through massive rainforest rain and humidity AND dust. Wouldn’t do the same with my D800 though :)

By: Chris Paine

Chris Paine — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:36:00 +0000

I hosed down my D3 with a 24 – 70 2.8 after a day on the beach in Cuba. I had taken my gear into enough rain to trust that a pass under the shower would do it no harm. This was over a year ago and I still use it every weekend or so for weddings.

By: Simon Lynch

Simon Lynch — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:29:00 +0000

I just wonder WHY all camera brands don’t do this…

I’d pay easily 3-400$ more to get that type of performance on say the new D600….