Fw: wet camera is dead ???

• Subject: Fw: wet camera is dead ???
• From: "Eric Gerds" <email@hidden>
• Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:34:46 -0400

My post was intended to be humour, I was only kidding...
But, this is interesting thread.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "A Y R T O N" <email@hidden>
> To: <email@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:36 AM
> Subject: Re: wet camera is dead ???
>
>
> > On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 12:38 AM, Eric Gerds wrote:
> >
> > > I suppose you could put the camera into a container filled
> > > with water, and ship it to Canon for repair :-)))
> > >
> > >  Sorry, I couldn't resist...
> > > What would JacqueS Cousteau do....
> >
> > Sorry to get in the conversation ...
> >
> > I've worked with JYC during 6 years of my life
> > And what we used to do on board of Calypso was to take the cameras and
> > put inside a BIG black plastic bag
> >
> > On one side we would make a samall hole for ventilating
> > On the other side we would stick with gafer-tape a HairDryer running
> > one day long
> >
> > So the camera would saty inside this hot ventilating bag and drying all
> > the water inside the camera and lots of times, on lens, lightmeters,
> > flashes, etc... Everything that our crew sometimes would let fall
> > inside the rivers, lakes, etc... When it happened in the salt water, we
> > would wash it with lots of fresh running water
> >
> > After that we would just happily use the camera again normally
> >
> > I've done that with my Nikons more than 10 times when I was shooting on
> > the Amazon Expedition, what took us two years straight in the very
> > heavy tropical  jungle, full of mosquitos and big spiders :- ).
> >
> > All of them (nikons) turn to work perfectly after that "surgery"
> >
> > I don't know about digital ones.
> > Sorry
> >
> > Sincerely
> >
> > Ayrton
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