Which L's are weather sealed?

100-400L isn't sealed, and could actually suck in stuff

ssitu wrote in post #2149320
100-400L isn't sealed, and could actually suck in stuff

So, what's seems to be the problem, dood ? You retract it and she blows the stuff back out.

cwphoto wrote in post #2149023
The 400 DO isn't an L.

I know, but it's still weather sealed.

Petkal wrote in post #2149337
So, what's seems to be the problem, dood ? You retract it and she blows the stuff back out.

I often use my 100-400 as a Supersoaker in the pool. It works real well.

mark

cwphoto wrote in post #2149023
The 400 DO isn't an L.

He didn;t call it an L, but it is weather sealed

That looks liek the complete list. Essentially every L put out in the last few years and then some are weather sealed.. the ones that are still made that aren't are the older designs. (but goodies)

MDJAK wrote in post #2153214
I often use my 100-400 as a Supersoaker in the pool. It works real well.

mark

Oh that's rich!

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MDJAK wrote in post #2153214
I often use my 100-400 as a Supersoaker in the pool. It works real well.

ROFL!

Ok... help me out here. I shot 3 years in the rockies doing winter sports with just about everything we can cold coming out of the sky, then for 6 years in Seattle weather without weather sealed lenses, and my main sports lens today isn't weather sealed. I don't shy away from shooting in weather - I actually love it. And to date I have yet had any issues with any of my equipment do to weather - except for when I shoot swimming indoors in the winter and it takes my equipment a half hour to acclimate and defog before I can really shoot. What are the dire results we are avoiding here? I am just the luckiest guy around, or is all this stuff built to handle more then we are giving it credit for. Heck, my old XG-7 used to run Flamming Gorge with me so many times the little leather on the outside shrunk. But the camera kept clicking away. I have lost two lenses do to being smashed... once in basketball and the other to baggage handlers on Horizon Airlines. But nothing to weather. Just wondering.

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #2153700
He didn;t call it an L, but it is weather sealed

That looks liek the complete list. Essentially every L put out in the last few years and then some are weather sealed.. the ones that are still made that aren't are the older designs. (but goodies)

The OP asked about Ls.

Also, I don't think the new 85 L is weather-sealed either.

Without a filter, water can damage any of the front elements, even on water sealed lenses, right? If you use a filter, can you shoot outside in the rain with any lens, or is it that the body of the lens can get damaged from the rain?

JaGWiRE wrote in post #2154819
Without a filter, water can damage any of the front elements, even on water sealed lenses, right? If you use a filter, can you shoot outside in the rain with any lens, or is it that the body of the lens can get damaged from the rain?

Yeah, the lens body (around the switches and lens-mount) also has extra sealing.

cwphoto wrote in post #2154834
Yeah, the lens body (around the switches and lens-mount) also has extra sealing.

I wonder if cutting out some garbage bag or something, and then just wrapping the cut out part of the bag around the body of the lens (taping the seams closed or whatever) and putting a filter on the lens would do okay. Even if my lenses were weather sealed I wouldn't like to use them outside as it can't be good for their cosmetic condition.

Seen that done before. I think it works quite well in extreme conditions.