Canon 6D Weather Sealing

[mdflare]

The dial button on my 6D stopped working after getting hit with some drops of rain over some hours :'( . I dried it carefully and it works fine now (a year ago). But consider the Buttons on the back to fail the moment water gets on them.
The Buttons ontop dont seem not to have much Problems with water, because they got hit some more times and never stoped working.
The contacts fror the strobe also don´t seem to cause problems. They got wet like the rest of the camerra top. I don´t know if it still works, because i never use one. But it does not seem to affect the camera even if it got damaged.

Hope it helps to get a feeling for the "kind" of sealing there is, or is not. Top ok, backside "risky".
Rainwater on Backside Buttons: maybe good chance for no permanent dmg, but I would not take a bet on that.

I have a 60D too. Never exposed it to Rain, but i shure had more hopes for the 6D. Maybe with the 7D2 buildquality increase the next body of the 6D2 will be better too. (Hope dies last) :-\

 

[Loswr]

To keep this thread on the original topic, how many people suffered 6D liquid damage due to a coffee spill?

 

[jeffa4444]

My 6D got VERY wet this weekend in a sudden storm (as did my EF 24-105 f4L) and I was convinced it would be kaput. Dried it off with a towel & tissue paper and when it looked completely dry turned it on and to my amazement its working fine with no problems. Again turned it on today and seems perfectly fine.

 

[tron]

To keep this thread on the original topic, how many people suffered 6D liquid damage due to a coffee spill?

I truly hope that the number is much less than the number of people who suffered keybord damage due to a coffee spill ;D ;D ;D

 

[knoxville]

500euro damage after light rain for 10 minutes! Weather sealing in the 6D, what a joke!

 

[IglooEater]

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?)

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[\b] 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.

That's my problem- some years we get so much rain it's not reasonable to run for cover every time, so I've simply gotten used to being wet and don't bother any more. . We've received 25mm over a couple hours and I was out the whole time. (At work, not with the camera)

 

[Loswr]

500euro damage after light rain for 10 minutes! Weather sealing in the 6D, what a joke!

Unfortunate.

What lens were you using?

 

[AcutancePhotography]

Unless the camera is subjected to an IP rating, I feel that "weather sealing" means only what the marketing department think it means.

I am especially wary when the marketing department uses the verb phrase instead of the noun phrase.

I treat all my cameras as if they were weather vulnerable.

 

[Alex_M]

I suggest the following video might serve as an indication of what the Canon 6D weather sealing quality is like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ZMJiOjFSk

 

[j-nord]

I guess Ive been pretty lucky, my 6D has gotten pretty soaked on a number of occasions.