Do you like to shoot in the rain?

[loccdor]

Whenever I see snow melt in a bucket, I'm always surprised by how it's like 90% air. I think the snow on that camera would amount to a handful of drops of liquid water.

 

[jlin]

umbrella and with an autofocus camera!

 

[warden]

Whenever I see snow melt in a bucket, I'm always surprised by how it's like 90% air. I think the snow on that camera would amount to a handful of drops of liquid water.

I got home and opened the camera completely and it air dried in no time. No problems at all. One from that roll - my kid was 10 years old and happy to make snow angels on a frozen stream that we were skipping rocks across just a few weeks prior. It’s good to be a kid.

 

[DREW WILEY]

locdor - I don't know where you live, but snow can be very wet. We get little "dry" powder snow in California, and only in the coldest months up high. Most of our snowfall actually comes in Spring, which, due to its high water content, turns into what skiers call "Sierra cement". That's also going to be the case in much of the Cascades, due to being close to the Pacific coast. A couple years ago we had a heavy snow year, with at least one of the ski slopes open until the second week of August. But on the higher peaks, snow can remain all year long, although actual glaciers are now less common.

That wet snow can get into everything, and leave awfully slippery conditions when it refreezes. I have no idea how this year will turn out, but there have already been several minor snowfalls, with more on the way. I hope the high passes will remain open a little longer, in case I want an autumn photo drive. When I was still slightly younger, I still would have been out backpacking in it; my last such autumn long high trek was the year I turned 70.

Monitoring the actual water content of snow in the high country is a crucial part of planning for seasonal water allotment down below among the many farms and cities competing for it.

 

[Pieter12]

There are many rain covers for cameras if you really need to shoot in a downpour.

 

[jeffreyg]

It has only snowed here once. January 19, 1977 but we do get our share of rain. So far this year 50 inches and more to come starting Sunday through Wednesday at over 50% chance. Usually showers rarely a misty drizzle. Although I don’t mind photographing in mist, fog and drizzle I have to do it elsewhere not in Miami.