Weather proofing bag for 300D - any suggestions?

I'm going on holidays to India in about a month and hoping to get a lots of
good. photos. However, I expect it could be quite rainy so I want to protect my
dRebel from the weather.

Does anyopne have experinece with any products that do this. I've been peeking
at a couple of products online but they look horrifically expensive and may not
even be suitable for my camera. I wondered about trying to make something but I
can see thant turning into a drama at best, disaster at worst.

 

If you'll be carrying a backpack/bookbag, or something else into which you
could put a small box, browse here:
www.pelican.com

Their products were initially designed for white water rafting. They work.
The company's now branched off into other directions, including small boxes
for photo equipment. Great stuff.

 

I have a Lowepro Nova 3 AW bag with the same feature. It's a standard
flip-lid camera bag with velcro dividers, fits my DRebel with its lens and
Canon 75-300 zoom, Speedlite 420EX, a spare mini-flash with slave trigger,
several four-packs of AA batteries (for the flashes), all my cables, and
assorted filters and cleaning accessories.

The flip-top lid has a "lip" that overlaps the top of the bag and then zips
up to help keep water out, plus a flap that clips shut in the front, and
also has the same built-in "raincoat" - a nylon "baggie" that stores away in
a zippered compartment on the bottom edge of the bag and encloses the whole
bag nicely.

One thing I do as well to help keep things dry: I've collected several of
those little silica-gel packs (various things I buy for work include them)
and drop one into each barricaded-off area of my camera bag: one of the
bottom of the short-zoom compartment, one of the bottom of the long-zoom
compartment, and so on.

 

Check around at some gun shops & sporting goods stores. I believe it was
Galyan's or Gander Mountain where I found silica gel packed in metal cases
about the size of a tin of Altoids. The cases have a small round window so
you can see when the crystals change color and need to be tossed in the oven
to be dried.

Here's a reliable online source:
http://www.midwayusa.com/rewriteaproduct/799452

 

Thank you for suggestions so far. I must have mis-stated the question though. I
meant the sort of thing the camera has on while I shoot, not a carry bag.

 

Don't know the exact name, but there's a newsgroup for photojournalists.
Maybe someone there can give you some ideas, other than an underwater box.

 

Thanks Charlie, the Optec Weather Guard is a product I was not aware of.

 

So it is official now

This brand of camera is for bag people

great marketing ploy

it is also a very good place to keep the grey cards, polarizing filters and
another bag just in case the first one gets wet on the inside

hahahaha

Arts

Limbaugh

 

DJ wrote

Take a look here, Kevin's range includes waterproof and camouflaged
camera, lens and tripod covers. I'm expecting delivery of some stuff in
a few days, but we're at the start of a dry spell of weather here so I
may not be able to give it a hard test for a while.

http://www.wildlifewatchingsupplies.co.uk/