A new camera filter developed by Japanese lens company Tokina and Japanese broadcasting corporation NHK can blow water right off your lens, so shooting video in the rain will no longer be a problem.
Usually lenses only keep water from bubbling up by vibrating, according to a reporter from Newsshooter, but this hydrophilic "rain dispersion filter" forces water to slide right off the lens.
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"Although from the front it looks like the lens would still be obscured some, the water that is being sprayed onto the filter hardly shows up at all, and then only for a split second," wrote the website, PetaPixel.
Reporters could use such a filter during live shots from the middle of a storm, and a Tokina employee said they will be available in all shapes and sizes as early as the start of 2014.
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