Canon 7D Weather Sealing
Posted by Matt McGuire in 
The Canon 7D is once nice piece of camera gear. I don’t own this fine camera, yet, but I still enjoy living vicariously through those that do. One of the features of the Canon 7D is the enhance weather sealing. I know I am very careful with my current Canon 30D. I never let sand get on it. I never let more that a mist of water hit the camera. Professional photographers out in the field cannot always be that careful.
Photographer Ole Jorgen Liodden recently brought his EOS 7D to the Antarctica for an assignment. The camera held up remarkably well.
This trip was almost the same 3.5 week photo expedition to Antartctica as last year, where I had a 50D and Canon HF10 HD video camera for testing. On that trip I destroyed the video camera on my first day at South Georgia, and the 50D camera had a one day “hangover” after a wet landing. After a few days I put the 50D away because it was not suited to those conditions. 3-4 photographers with Canon 30Ds and 40Ds broke their cameras during last year’s expedition. NB: My workhorse, the 1DS Mark III worked flawlessly, even after 2 “baths” in cold sea water. After these experiences, I wasn’t sure if the 7D and 5D Mark II would survive for the duration of the expedition this year.
The 7D performed as I had hoped, surpassing 10,000 exposures without a problem. I must admit that the 5D Mark II surprised me as well with its build quality. The 1DS Mark III camera is the most rugged and best weather sealed, but the 7D and 5D Mark II (without battery grip) performed 100% in my opinion.
It’s nice to know when I can finally afford the 7D I can abuse it. Though I don’t plan on heading to Antarctica any time soon.
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