Canon 6D Weather Sealing
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Sporgon said:
My 6D acted erratic when I was shooting a football game under the rain. I couldn't preview the preview button activated live-view, and couldn't change my ISO.
Thankfully, after drying it for a few hours, it started working normally.
My conclusion is that the 6D isn't well weather-sealed. The rain was mostly light to moderate, but it was continuous.
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Good to know. I just ordered a refurb 6D and though it claims to be weather sealed, it's good to hear real world feedback. Anyone else have issues with the 6D and weather sealing? It's supposed to be a wet winter in Texas this year.
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addola said:
My 5dmk3 behaved like that once after heavy rain. Back to normal after several hours with lots of desiccant bags around the camera to absorb the moisture. I suppose you could argue that the same weather condition could have killed any other cameras. But i was worried and upset that i couldn't use my mk3. Fortunately had a backup camera with me at the time. So don't feel bad. Happens to cameras that are supposedly better sealed too.
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I had a 6D/40mm f/2.8 STM fail during a rainstorm in which, despite my best efforts at keeping the camera under my coat hood and drying it off constantly, my hands got wet enough that some water seeped in by capillary action, perhaps into the shutter button. I gave up and left the camera under my raincoat, used my phone instead, and dried the camera well when I got back to the car. After a while I tried a cold reboot (turn off, battery and lens off, battery and lens on, turn on), and it worked most of the time. After a day it was back to its old perfectly behaving self. Lesson is that I need to craft a rain guard that can be used with the pancake lens.
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addola said:
I had a similar experience with my 6D when I used it in steady rain when hiking. I didn't have the camera out of a waterproof bag for very long - probably only 10 minutes or so. It worked OK at the time, but an hour or so later I discovered many of the buttons no longer worked or worked erratically. I dried it as best I could, but I was on a four day carry in, carry out hike, so I didn't have the option of packing the camera in rice or desiccant bags. Anyway, the camera came back to life the next day (the rest of the trip was, thankfully, warm and sunny), except for one button which took another day or two. The camera seems fine now. I was a little disappointed in what happened and I certainly won't be quick to take it out in any rain again, but the question is whether a 5DIII or most other cameras would actually have done better. I suspect a 1 series camera would have, and some of the Pentax and Olympus cameras have good reputations for water resistance I believe, so I'm sure there are some, just not sure how many.
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The D-pad of my 6D got stuck as if I was continuously pressing it to the left during very light rain.
This issue made it nearly impossible to take a picture as it selected the outer left focus point, so I worked around it by locking all the buttons.
After drying up within an hour or so it started working normally again and has ever since.
This issue made it nearly impossible to take a picture as it selected the outer left focus point, so I worked around it by locking all the buttons.
After drying up within an hour or so it started working normally again and has ever since.
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I also have bad experience with light rain and 6D with Tamron 24-70 lens. Neither of them has a real weather sealing.
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Hmm that distresses me- I would have considered an upgrade to the 6d from my current 60d, but not if that's the case. I've had a 60d out in pouring rain for 3-4 hours and never had an issue 
And then sunnyvan had a 5diii do that too.. What do you guys think? For a guy wanting to go full frame, what are the best bets of having good weather sealing? (If we include the 5d ii and the 1ds iii along with canon 's current offerings?)
And then sunnyvan had a 5diii do that too..
What do you guys think? For a guy wanting to go full frame, what are the best bets of having good weather sealing? (If we include the 5d ii and the 1ds iii along with canon 's current offerings?)
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Down the line 1D, your best choice is 5D Mark iii. See this article in lensrental.com where Roger fully disassemble the camera.IglooEater said:Hmm that distresses me- I would have considered an upgrade to the 6d from my current 60d, but not if that's the case. I've had a 60d out in pouring rain for 3-4 hours and never had an issue
And then sunnyvan had a 5diii do that too..
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/04/5d-iii-strip-tease
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IglooEater said:Hmm that distresses me- I would have considered an upgrade to the 6d from my current 60d, but not if that's the case. I've had a 60d out in pouring rain for 3-4 hours and never had an issue
And then sunnyvan had a 5diii do that too..
The best value and outright IQ at low iso Canon have ever made is the 1DS MKIII, they are very well weathersealed too, secondhand ones are so cheap it is insane. BUT, they are limited in iso, over 800 you are better off with something younger.
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The 60D is a fairly well sealed camera..... If you want better sealing than it, you are looking at a 7D2 or a 1DX...IglooEater said:Hmm that distresses me- I would have considered an upgrade to the 6d from my current 60d, but not if that's the case. I've had a 60d out in pouring rain for 3-4 hours and never had an issue
And then sunnyvan had a 5diii do that too..
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IglooEater said:Hmm that distresses me- I would have considered an upgrade to the 6d from my current 60d, but not if that's the case. I've had a 60d out in pouring rain for 3-4 hours and never had an issue
And then sunnyvan had a 5diii do that too..
No Canon camera is waterproof, not even 1Dx. It should be encouraging that all these anecdotal stories support that the 6D has decent sealing and that none were permanently water damaged. You just have to take reasonable precaution if you know weather will be bad. The rule of thumb is that if the rain is so heavy that you need to take cover for yourself then it's too risky to trust the sealing alone. 7dmk2 is better sealed than 60d, 6d, and 5dmk3. It's at least as well sealed as the 1dx if not better. But if I had a 7d2 with me in heavy rain, I'd still take precaution.
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