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Regular readers of this blog will know that after a year of prevarication, I recently went out and bought the OM System OM-3 camera.<\/a><\/p>\n I’m still getting to grips with the thing, but the fact that it enjoys an\u00a0 IP53-rated weather-sealing rating, means that it holds no fear for London rain, being\u00a0 designed to handle direct rain spray.<\/p>\n So out I went into the grey, February London drizzle and here’s what I saw:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Covent Garden.<\/p>\n A curious, two person flat umbrella!<\/p>\n Across the Hungerford Bridge (or Golden Jubilee bridge, if you must).<\/p>\n South Bank.<\/p>\n Along the Strand.<\/p>\n Charing Cross Road.<\/p>\n And a final photo back in Brixton. The rain didn’t let up all day.<\/p>\n Regular readers of this blog will know that after a year of prevarication, I recently went out and bought the OM System OM-3 camera. I’m still getting to grips with … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1765,194,456,17,193],"tags":[2139,10,2710,2737,2844,18,1195,31,809],"class_list":["post-61150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-london-features","category-news","category-photos","category-places","tag-camera","tag-london","tag-olympus","tag-om-system","tag-om-3","tag-photography","tag-photos","tag-rain","tag-street-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/london-rain-umbrellas-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-fUi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61164,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61150\/revisions\/61164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/london-rain-umbrellas-02.jpg\")
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