This may sound crazy but I am currently working on a shoot which is behind a waterfall. I need to keep water droplets to an absolute minimum. Can anyone suggest any solutions (polishes, etc.) that hepl. Has anyone any experience of this problem and come up with a really good solution. I've done one of two shoots standing under a (very cold) fall of water and found two problems. One is the droplets on the port which, no matter how careful I am, form and show, the other is seeing through the viewfinder with water pouring off my hat and face! I can sort the second but would be grateful for input on the first!

RainX might do the trick, but not sure if you really want to put that stuff on. I dont know what is capable of removing it.

There are two possible solutions to the problem, assuming that you will eventually get water on the port. The first is to try to make the port totally hydrophilic, i.e when the water hits it, it sheets perfectly and doesn't form a large drop. You can try the typical mask defog systems, that is how they are supposed to work. In our lab this hasn't worked well but if it is cold then maybe no problems. The second approach is to make the port totally hydrophobic and non-adherent so that drops form but then flow off because the surface isn't "sticky" enough to hold the drops. Silicone solutions like Rainx might work depending on whether your port is glass or plastic. We use siliconization solutions in the lab, it works but getting the port totally clean later is a real pain.
Good luck.

Hello,

I use Rain X for over/under shots, as well as during other projects such as yours. There seems to be no perfect solution. Patience and timing go a long, long way.

Scott Johnson
SeaScapes Images