good PR for Pentax

[Seawolf66]

here is an out take from the article on the Volvo ocean around the world race by Dominique :

On TV, these boats do by far not give the same speed impression than when experiencing them from a zodiac. Even with the very powerful motors of the zodiac, we struggled to keep pace with the front runners. We had to stop in order to be able to take photos, but we could not afford to stop longer than a few seconds if we wanted to follow the race. With continual sprays of salt water shooting over the zodiacs, one hardly stayed dry. All I could do to protect the camera was to hold it in the opposite moving direction to avoid water drops on the front lens. At the end of the race, the camera had an unusual touch; a thin layer of dried salt covered everything. The weather sealing of the Pentax K-5 and the DA* lenses also proved to be working really well as the equipment survived the races within the press zodiacs without any additional protection for two days and is still in perfect working condition.


If I broke some rule just delete this :

[tcom]

Yep, the K-5 and DA* lenses definitely had to show that the weather sealing works! Here is the full article.

[Dirk]

that was one of the reasons for me to buy the K10D wich got weather sealing as well
same as with my Nikon D200.