Fifteen years ago, for my 65th birthday, my wife took me over to the wild west coast, to Tofino, BC. and I chose my little Bessa/Summicron. Incredibly rainstorm weather ensued for the whole week end. The camera spent most of its time inside my rain jacket, lens collapsed, and still got rather damp. Sat on a towel over a heat register in the motel, it dried out and it later worked flawlessly on a trip to the Grand Canyon. I am glad it wasn't my Df, but that didn't come along until about ten years later, so I didn't have to worry. Hopefully, I will celebrate my 80th this fall, but it will be somewhere well south of home in the North West, in Df kindly weather. My cowardly advice: Take a cheap P&S if you choose to join King Lear in the "pelting storm."
