David Savage wrote: > 2008/5/7 Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I always loved its image quality. The main reason I went to the Pentax >> 16-50 was for the weather sealing, which can be important for the kind >> of photography I like most. (How some of my cameras and lenses have >> survived downpours on Grandfather Mountain and elsewhere I'll never know!) > > To me it suggests that the whole weather sealing thing may be a bit of > a sales gimmick.
I dare you to test that hypothesis on your own gear! I know I wouldn't submit non-sealed equipment to what I've put my K10D and 16-50/2.8 through! (With the ist-D and non-sealed lenses I at least tried to protect my gear in the rain, with the K10D and 16-50 I just let it all hang out.) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
