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P3D Re: Water damage

  • From: Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Re: Water damage
  • Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 20:28:53 -0500
At 06:44 PM 12/26/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I noted the following posts:
>
><<show you that water damage, esp salt water, can happen *very* quickly and
>turn an expensive camera into junk in an instant.>>
>
>And another:
><<Yup - my dad once dropped a brand new 16mm Bolex Movie Camera with
>stereo adapter into the Gulf of Mexico off a dock. It was retrieved,
>but of course was junk.>>
>
>Any thoughts of my doing 3D boat races or offshore waves have been suitably
>put to rest.

I've heard from the folks at Sanford Camera Repair in Arlington, MA that if
your camera falls into salt water, the best thing to do it immediately
stick it in a bucket of fresh water.  Of course, if you don't have one
handy ...

-pd


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