The Fuji X Files

There's an old saying that goes "Make hay while the sun shines". Here on the South Island's West Coast (sometimes jokingly referred to as the 'Wet' Coast), you have to take that saying to heart and make photographs while the sun shines! The long-range forecast for the coming week (as I write this) is not looking great. Rain, with the chance of rain, interrupted by the occasional downpour of rain. So yeah, not good. Yes, I know, rain makes for great moody landscape photos. But I'm sorry, it's just not me. I can't really understand looking outside at the pouring rain and thinking "great - time to go and take photos"!? For a start, my gear isn't weather-sealed, so that's not good. But even when I did have weather-sealed camera gear, the last thing I really wanted to be doing with it was slogging around in the wet, constantly struggling to keep the front lens element clear of rain (not to mention my own glasses), just so I could catc...