Would you cover your gear with this?

I think this has a lot of applications. After watching how it worked on a Iphone, I wonder if coating our photo gear with it would be worth it?

http://www.wimp.com/pouringpepsi/

Since you spray it on, I would be concerned that it gets into somewhere that you don't want, like optics, sensor, mirror, etc.

I would love to have this nano covering sprayed on in the manufacturing process...not sure about afterwards (as EJ said). I think I'm going to buy some for my headlights, nothing will stick...not sure about life expectancy though.

This could be really good...............especially if you dropped your gear into a lake or something

Brian E. Small wrote:This could be really good...............especially if you dropped your gear into a lake or something  ;-)

That never happens!!!!  

Brian E. Small wrote:This could be really good...............especially if you dropped your gear into a lake or something  ;-)

Ha Ha Ha, I guess I teed that up for you

Interesting, but on this site

http://www.rustoleum.com.au/index.php/p ... wet-liquid

it says:

"Not intended to be applied to electronic devices or clothing"

MSDS is here:http://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalo ... verwet-kit

Looks like the base coat is polyproylene in a bunch of solvents and the top coat is a silicone style compound.

Looks pretty cool, I wonder how toxic it is? It almost makes water behave like a "super fluid."

E.J. Peiker wrote:

Brian E. Small wrote:This could be really good...............especially if you dropped your gear into a lake or something  ;-)

That never happens!!!!  

Yeah, you prefer creeks, if I remember correctly. EOS 1, about ten years ago. Right?

Scott Fairbairn wrote:Looks pretty cool, I wonder how toxic it is? It almost makes water behave like a "super fluid."

Read the MSDS in the link above but that is mostly talking about the solvents they use to dissolve the polyprop (non toxic) and silicones that is left behind to do the work.

Jens Peermann wrote:

E.J. Peiker wrote:

Brian E. Small wrote:This could be really good...............especially if you dropped your gear into a lake or something  ;-)

That never happens!!!!  

Yeah, you prefer creeks, if I remember correctly. EOS 1, about ten years ago. Right?

EOS 1V, August 2001:
http://www.naturephotographers.net/ejp0901-1.html

Alan Murphy wrote:

Brian E. Small wrote:This could be really good...............especially if you dropped your gear into a lake or something  ;-)

Ha Ha Ha, I guess I teed that up for you

Just like at TopGolf.................300 yards right down the middle of the fairway!

Has anybody here ever had damage from rain or snow with an advertised "sealed" body. My inclination is that it would take a lot of rain to actually penetrate the sealing, but I'm too chicken to actually test the theory.

I'm mystified as to why this would be a good coating for cameras and lenses.
The weak point in weatherproofing camera equipment, is the joints in:

• focusing ring
• zoom ring
• attachment joints of lens to camera
• any rotating dials
• shutter release
• doors and rubber that opens and closes
• etc.

If you were to coat any of these parts with this stuff the seal that would have been created is instantly broken the moment you rotate a ring or push a shutter. Yes it would easier to clean but as far as an aid in weatherproofing how would it help?

Actually the weakest point is the hot shoe and/or pop-up flash.

Andrew Kandel wrote:Has anybody here ever had damage from rain or snow with an advertised "sealed" body.   My inclination is that it would take a lot of rain to actually penetrate the sealing, but I'm too chicken to actually test the theory.

Yes!  And not rain, just sweat, on a Canon 1D4.  Borneo rainforest.  Two years in a row.  (I'm a slow learner.)  And expensive repair because it wasn't fresh water.    Must admit that I'm sorely tempted by the product.

You will note that on the Rustoleum website it specifically says it is NOT intended for clothing or electronics, even though the video shows it applied to these same items. If you look closely at the video you'll see where they show it applied to some glass, it is the milky semi opaque perimeter around the piece of glass, so for a start you couldn't apply it over LCD screens or eyepieces. It also would not work on any of the buttons because you are physically moving them and breaking the seal, all the buttons have O rings under them but will suck water through by capillary action if using the button causes a small gap to appear.