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I use RainX directly on the lens in wet weather. Like on the Go-Kart track when a lot of spay is coming off the wheels.
Don’t use it on the housing - I only use the housing in the surf.
In the snow I find the shape of Drift forces water and snow to fall off since it is glass and free of dirt. Drift doesn’t need a housing.
I’m also well practiced at checking the lens for snow but find it’s unnecessary with Drift.Currently I don’t have any RainX otherwise I would use it all the time. In the past I’ve also used WD40, Bugoff, shaving cream and even rub on snowboard wax! All with good results.
I also have some oldschool lens cleaner that I use on my pricier lenses/cameras.
RainX would probably work on goggles too.
Funny that the footage that Dylan took with ozgirl’s Drift had moisture on the lens then?????
Rain-X is also great for the surf as its main function is to make water bead off surfaces!!!!!
The Ran-X works by filling small depressions (pores) in the surface of glass and plastic forming a slick surface, and this is what prevents the water from poolin on the surface!!!!!
Although with my very limited knowledge of photography this is only my opinion!!!!!
I do however know that this product does work overseas as I have been to both Canada and Japan!!!!! Can’t speak for the other 190 odd countries though, so maybe my opinion is worthless about this too?????
Funny that the footage that Dylan took with ozgirl’s Drift had moisture on the lens then?????
I was waiting for you to comment that!
I would blame the operator rather than the camera for that one. And it was on the outside not the inside.
He got some great footage yesterday and stacked it a few times and snow was everywhere but it fell right off.
Funny that the footage that Dylan took with ozgirl’s Drift had moisture on the lens then?????
I was waiting for you to comment that!
I would blame the operator rather than the camera for that one. And it was on the outside not the inside.
He got some great footage yesterday and stacked it a few times and snow was everywhere but it fell right off.
Who else would ya blame when snow gets onto the lens????? And how would it get inside?????