Water rides and protecting your equipment

Just curious how everyone protects their camera gear while riding some of the water rides in the parks. ; Do you take turns and have someone watch your stuff or are any of your bags water resistant? ;

I would hate to miss all the rides with the family just because I don't want the gear to get wet!

Kali River Rapids has a center console to put some stuff, but it is not very big and not sure how well it works. ; Splash mountain seems tricky as well since some times you stay pretty dry and other times you can get soaked.

Also, what about Fantasmic? ; Is there a splash area if you sit too close? ; I want to sit fairly close so I can get some good close ups which I have been unable to do thus far.

 

The only one I don't take gear on is Kali River Rapids. ; I don't trust the center console at all and its always too full to fit my camera bag anyway. ; My mom won't ride it, so the rest of us leave our gear with her. ; I've also never tried to take pictures on Splash, so I have always put my gear in the camera bag and zipped it closed. ; The outside of the bag gets wet, but it has never soaked through to the inside.

 

;D I tend to agree on that one

so where is the best seat in the house?

 

thanks for the tip Roger

 

Roger, you threw me off, I thought we were talking WDW's version of Fantasmic. ; I'll keep your tip in mind in case I get back out there to DL. ; Anyone have a seating tip for the "Fantasmic" at DHS?

 

I think Tim summed it up perfectly for me regarding the water rides. These suggestions are precisely what I do. I tucked right after taking this shot.

 

nice capture Leo, I wasn't even considering taking any shots on Splash or Kali, but now I might have to practice my technique since Splash looks doable.

 

splash, i too do the turtle up thing

fantasmic, i won't bother again until they revamp the show, got all i wanted mousefest 07, from the special desert seating area up top, via the 200 f2.8 on the tripod

kali rapids, that's actually why i always have some plastic shopping bags tucked into the bag somewhere

 

I still think I would chicken out and not get any decent shots since I would be panicking.

 

I use a home-made camera poncho to keep my camera dry, both on wet rides and in wet weather.

A camera poncho is simply a 1-gallon Ziploc bag with the corners cut off to accommodate the snap hooks of my camera strap. See details here:

http://www.willcad.org/image_cameraponcho.shtml

I rarely shoot with the bag on, though someone on the DIS boards recently used my technique and got a fantastic series of downhill shots on Splash Mountain (last post on first page):
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2187381