Well...

...got to see just how weather-proof the 5D Mark II is: McMurray Girls' Soccer this evening (Varsity, 12-nil, JV, 8-nil, and I'm not making that up) took place under one of Puget Sound's famous drowning mists.

Virtually nothing showed on the doppler radar but the air was simply filled with multitudes of tiny droplets and everything became soaked in minutes.

I didn't have my rain cover 'cause nothing had shown up on the radar as I was leaving home, but I was able to get a towel out of my trunk at half time.

Worst problem was my glasses, which I took off and left in the trunk at the half.

The 5D Mark II functioned flawlessly, as far as I can tell.

I blew it off with a can of compressed air when I got home and chased little droplets out of various crevices and dried it off with a towel.

I think I'll let it sit overnight before I open any of its little hatches...

...or maybe not.

Just shot...

...Turkey Trot 2009 down at Chautauqua in a pouring rain.

Definitely Kata rain cover time :-/

I'll be very interested to get a look at these photos: they are the first shot I've with the new 5D Mark II at ISO 3200.

Heavy cloud cover, so ISO 3200 and Aperture priority exposure of f5.6 produced (for those I noticed) shutter speeds around 250th to 320th second.

Shooting in the rain with center-point focus and focus lock means I look through all the raindrops on my glasses, look through all the rain drops on the Kata rain cover, wait for the red square to light up, and bang.