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Which Rain Covers for Keeping Your Gear Dry?

By Daniel J. Cox ·

Which Rain Covers for Keeping Your Gear Dry?

Hi Dan,

I am considering getting rain covers for the Brazil trip and other trips. I have looked at the LensCoat Rain Coat. There are several models: one with no arm sleeve, one with a right arm sleeve for the camera controls(no separate left arm sleeve for lens controls) and one with both right and left arm control sleeves.

Do you have any recommendations?

Thanks,

Doug

This is the Op/Tech Mega Cover Rain Sleeve.

This is the Op/Tech Mega Cover Rain Sleeve.

Which rain covers for keeping your gear dry? Doug, sorry I missed this until now. I have to say I’m a minimalist when it comes to rain gear for my cameras. My favorite is without a doubt the cheap, yet very worthy, Op/Tech glorified plastic bag. These things are incredibly inexpensive so I regularly buy several and keep them all around me. I have one or two in all my camera bags, one in my truck, one in  my office, one in my day pack. you get the idea. They are amazing and are proof positive that expensive is not always better. Can’t recommend them highly enough. They are awesome.