I have, for the past couple of years, been carrying an Olympus EPL7 in the woods. It is a pretty good camera for my purposes, but it is not waterproof. On Thursday, after making the picture above, I lost control of the camera and it went into the creek—the Beaver River, actually. The picture was on an SD card, so it was unharmed, but, the camera, which was submerged for five or ten seconds, has not rebooted. And I don't suppose it ever will. I immediately replaced it with a spare Nikon D3000 that I had in the office, but that is not the camera for me—too much bulk for medium quality pictures. So, I guess I'd better go back to the drawing board. Olympus makes a waterproof, shockproof, crushproof, freezeproof, dustproof camera that sounds, um, Olympian, but I'm not sure I need all that. Besides, what kind of lens can it have? At any rate, I've learned the lesson about keeping the strap around my neck.
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