Sony Weathersealing update...
Posted: Fri Nov 01, 2019 7:34 pm
Some had asked me about this when I first got the Sony a7R4...
Any doubts about Sony's weather sealing are a thing of the past. In the past Sony has taken some lumps on the waterproofing front compared to the competition. They claimed to have totally fixed this in the a7R4 and upcoming a9 II. After photographing for 4 hours often in torrential downpours in Great Otway National Park (Victoria, Australia) with the camera and two G-Master lenses totally drenched most of the time. The camera and lenses never missed a beat. The only thing you have to watch out for, as is the case with all cameras with an EVF, is to keep droplets of water off of the eye detection sensor. If suddenly the rear LCD doesn't come on anymore when you aren't looking through the camera, just wipe the little eye detection sensor and all will be fine. The drop of water on the detector triggers it and the camera will then turn off the LCD and turn on the EVF.
But truly, I was scared that my camera would fail me in the downpours but it kept on ticking. Other than the time that I dropped a camera into a river, I have never had a camera wetter...
Any doubts about Sony's weather sealing are a thing of the past. In the past Sony has taken some lumps on the waterproofing front compared to the competition. They claimed to have totally fixed this in the a7R4 and upcoming a9 II. After photographing for 4 hours often in torrential downpours in Great Otway National Park (Victoria, Australia) with the camera and two G-Master lenses totally drenched most of the time. The camera and lenses never missed a beat. The only thing you have to watch out for, as is the case with all cameras with an EVF, is to keep droplets of water off of the eye detection sensor. If suddenly the rear LCD doesn't come on anymore when you aren't looking through the camera, just wipe the little eye detection sensor and all will be fine. The drop of water on the detector triggers it and the camera will then turn off the LCD and turn on the EVF.
But truly, I was scared that my camera would fail me in the downpours but it kept on ticking. Other than the time that I dropped a camera into a river, I have never had a camera wetter...