hot shoe contacts

[mark]

why are there not any covers for these to keep moisture dirt and such off them when they are not holding a flash head ??

[Madison]

Apparently there are.


hxxp://www.colescameras.com/canon.htm (scroll down or do a text search for 'shoe' if you want)


Or here:


hxxp://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=25854577 (check out the pictures in the first thread)

[Wes]

Mark depending on your camera if you use a hot shoe cover you wont be able to use your on board flash if the camera has one as there is a pin that is pressed down by the auxilary flash that disables the on board flash.

[Joel Bookhammer]

I just checked out the hotshoe cover on dpreview, and I wonder why I havent thought of getting a contact cover before. Im going to order them as soon as possible. Its deffinitly worth checking out.


And as for the on board flash, I think I've used it twice, once when I first got the camera, and a second time when I was showing someone what it was. But the on board flash is still better then missing a shot entirelyso it still has its place.


thanks


joel

[ShutterbugJohan]

It is possible that water could get caught under the hot shoe cover and manage to get into the camera. I really don't know, but here is a quote about battery grips catching water and possibly killing cameras from The Luminous Landscape. (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/antarctica-2009-worked.shtml)


"The largest group of failures through were among the Canon 5D MKIIs. Of
the 26 samples of this camera onboard, one quarter (six) failed at one time
or another, and while three recovered, the other three never did. In all
cases it appeared to be water or humidity damage. Of particular concern were
two cameras which stopped working while completely protected within Kata
rain covers during a light rain ashore. They came back to life the following
day though and were mostly fine for the rest of the trip, but one died permenently
just before the end of our voyage.


Several people noted that when returning to the ship after working in light
rain 5D MKIIs with vertical battery grips tended to collect water in between
the grip and the base – something that may have been the cause of some
of the failures."


Just an idea.


--Johan

[Madison]

Johan: you do realise this is from an expedition with gruesome weather conditions not only including rain but also very low sub zero temperatures as well? I don't think this applies to normal users. At all.

[mark]

thank you all for the info





cheers

[ShutterbugJohan]

Johan: you do realise this is from an expedition with gruesome weather conditions not only including rain but also very low sub zero temperatures as well? I don't think this applies to normal users. At all.
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Yes, I do. I realize that it is not typical photographic conditions, and I'm sorry if I offended you. I wanted to toss it out there as a possibility, albeit very slight. :-)


--Johan