Forgive me if I am overstating the obvious here, but it seems to me that your hand would provide some extra protection around the CF slot door. Even if some trickles through your hand, the door is designed to withstand much more, according to Canon. Also, the battery door is on the bottom of the camera. Water obeys the laws of physics; it'll be pulled off the bottom of the camera by gravity much more readily than it will climb upwards, past the weather seals and into the body of the camera.
I think you'd get into trouble if you set the camera upside down and left it in the rain, otherwise...
I dunno, I've just heard a lot of stories about people who have taken their 5Ds and used them in light rain without any issue. The water-damage failures are almost always people who have tipped a canoe or something. I figure the 5D2 gives a bit more peace of mind, but we all still need to be as careful with the equipment as we are comfortable with. Bad things happen sometimes, regardless of how well sealed a body is....Show more →
I'd tend to agree. The 5D should handle rain just fine. It won't handle standing water, unlike the K10D (which is heavily sealed at the card and battery doors, IIRC the E-3 is the same way) but rain is not going to make that an issue.
I've shot with unsealed cameras in fairly heavy rain (including in rotor wash during rain with a Pentax *istD). Weather sealing on my K10D did make me more confident in the wet, but every DSLR I've owned has survived a fair bit of rain just fine (That includes at least 1 variant of every Pentax body except the K200D, the Canon 10D and the Nikon D50 and D300).
ziyadj wrote:
Can you manually focus using the liveview. I have a 20D so don’t know how the liveview is used for manually focusing.
I guess if you were careful, and used the liveview for manual focusing and removed the lens before you turnoff the camera it may be possible to use some of the alternative lenses that have reported problems with mirror clearence on FF cameras. But I guess it may be a really cumbersome process.
With the big high-res displays and 10x zoom, Live View is FAR superior to a viewfinder for accurate focusing. It's like using a 6x9cm view camera with a really bright and toothy groundglass and built-in magnifier.
Can’t wait to try the new 5D Mark II. It has been trial an error with my 20D when it comes to manual focusing with alternative lenses.
I’m very curios about how the new feature of focusing with livelview without the mirror dropping will work with UWA alterative lenses. This hopefully will eliminate the need to shave the mirror.
pdmphoto wrote:
Why are we talkiing about the Canon 5DII on the alternate forum anyway? This thread should be in the Canon forum!
Because it's going to be the go-to body for all those Alt Lenses the moment it ships?
Heck, I'm a Nikon user with a collection of 3rd party and alt glass and the 5DmII looks interesting to me. Would be nice to be able to use my Contax and Yashica lenses on digital.
pdmphoto wrote:
Those look a little sloppy to me compared to the Sony images. Muddy color and soft corners.
I have to say I'm very positively impressed with Sony's colors that very much remind me of the Fujichrome Provia film. Soft corners are due of course to lenses? But noise performance is absolutely amazing with the 5DII.
Just to put things in perspective, My 20 has been in light rain a handful of times, sprayed by the sea a handful of times and recently swamped in the front of my boat while sitting on the seat in between chase boat shots. It had a 70-200f4l on it. I was able to grab it very quickly, but it still got pretty wet. I turned it off, pulled the batteries, the grip and wiped it off the best I could. 5 minutes later I put a battery in it and it worked like it always has. IMO some people put to much stock in "weather sealing". Aside from the dunking incident, I fully expect any canon camera to survive light rain and similar things.
Chris Anthony wrote:
Just to put things in perspective, My 20 has been in light rain a handful of times, sprayed by the sea a handful of times and recently swamped in the front of my boat while sitting on the seat in between chase boat shots. It had a 70-200f4l on it. I was able to grab it very quickly, but it still got pretty wet. I turned it off, pulled the batteries, the grip and wiped it off the best I could. 5 minutes later I put a battery in it and it worked like it always has. IMO some people put to much stock in "weather sealing". Aside from the dunking incident, I fully expect any canon camera to survive light rain and similar things.
Agreed. I've even shot with my original DRebel 300D in rain with no ill effects. People are making far too much noise over the sealing...
One thing I'm surprised that nobody has been saying so far...is that it has the same pixel density of 20D/30D, which at the pixel level had similar noise levels to the 5D. Even with no technological advance, we should expect to see at least a stop worth noise advantage over the 12.8MP sensor. For that reason I've always hoped that we'd see a FF sensor with 21/22 MP. Here it is, and most of what I hear are complaints!
But noise performance is absolutely amazing with the 5DII.