I tend to be clumsy and careless, and have been lucky to sink two of my dSLRs into a river! Yet both have survived and worked perfectly since. While I do not hope it happens to any of you, I have gathered here some tips to save your camera if you find yourselves in this situtation. http://younesbounhar.com/2009/03/26/save-the-camera/
Posted by Phillip Noll on March 26, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Hi Honey! what's for dinner?
Baked digicam!!!!
Posted by Bill Pelzmann on March 26, 2009 at 7:22 PM
Thanks for your suggestions, Younes. I'm about to leave for 16 days on the Colorado through the Grand Canyon. I hope we don't need to try a variation of this over a campfire.
Sounds like fun. Hopefully I'll never have to do it! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by Joel Hazelton on March 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Last weekend my 40D fell off the tripod (new tripod just came in, don't have to deal with that old POS anymore) and into a creek with hard bedrock at the bottom. I snatched it up, pulled out the battery and turned it off, all while letting out a string of strong four letter words. I opened everything up that I could (without unscrewing anything) and let it dry out for 2 days. I turned it on and it worked perfectly! My Sigma lens broke from the impact (worse things have happened, my new Tokina 12-24 mkII is on it's way, darn ) but the camera is nothing but squeaky clean!
I'm probably lucky, not only that it survived hitting the bedrock and getting wet, but that I only let it sit for two days before turning it on. I'll definitely keep the oven thing in mind from now on, although hopefully this won't happen again. My camera has hit the ground twice, both times from my old tripod unlocking itself.
Sorry to hear that Joel, I know exactly how you felt (twice at that )
I never baked my D70s and ti worked fine, but my D200 still had water inside the LCD after 24h of drying (w/o) the oven, hence the baking. I guess it depends on how much water it took in. I essentially had used my macro lens as a measure of drying time, since it had so much condensation inside I thought it would never get back to life, but as time went on, you could see it drying up...even the AF still works on it!
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Baked digicam!!!!
I think step #9 was the key to your success.
I'm probably lucky, not only that it survived hitting the bedrock and getting wet, but that I only let it sit for two days before turning it on. I'll definitely keep the oven thing in mind from now on, although hopefully this won't happen again. My camera has hit the ground twice, both times from my old tripod unlocking itself.
I never baked my D70s and ti worked fine, but my D200 still had water inside the LCD after 24h of drying (w/o) the oven, hence the baking. I guess it depends on how much water it took in. I essentially had used my macro lens as a measure of drying time, since it had so much condensation inside I thought it would never get back to life, but as time went on, you could see it drying up...even the AF still works on it!