richa@tekred.UUCP (Rich Amber ) (03/22/85)
Several months ago, I was on a whitewater rafting trip (as the official photographer for our bunch of crazies). In class IV rapids (read: very dangerous) I came out of the raft and was bounced along the bottom of the river for several hundred yards (almost didn't return from that one). My Canon A1 was around my neck during all this, inside a "waterproof" bag. The problem is, after several LARGE boulders had taken their toll on my chest, the bag did not stay waterproof. I cleaned out the camera (minor disassembly required). The lens was a total write-off, but I managed to make the camera body and motor winder function again. The problem I have now, even though the camera takes just as good of pictures as ever, is that the thing eats batteries like crazy. I don't buy into the idea that the shutter activation system or whatever is off/on/whatever all the time. As I said, it takes great pix, but it eats a battery in just a couple days. Everything else seems to function perfectly. Any of you young wizards out there have any bright ideas?
jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes) (03/25/85)
I, too, have had my camera soaked. Besides shooting at working fires a lot, I was once smacked in the head by a sail (moral : don't close the non-focussing eye !!) into Newpoort Bay. I was able to put my lens in an oven (~120-130 degrees) for about 20 minutes -- cleared it right up. Some bodies even work with this method, but beware of warping (or shrinking) a cloth shutter. Whenever I worked fires, I usually had duct tape on the seams (and Scotch-Guard'ed my tenba !! -- well worth the coupla bucks it cost...). The only problem with that is you gotta carry 3 or four bodies if you don't wanna run away every roll. /jordan ------- ARPA: jordan@berkeley UUCP: ..!ucbvax!jordan
ed@gatech.UUCP (Ed Coleman) (03/26/85)
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Sounds like the water shorted some circuit inside...
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