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05/12/2008 09:55:29 PM · #1 |
| on either my Rebel XTi or my Manfrotto tripod? its raining and i had an episode about an hour ago with a muddy lake...yeh, my shoes are ruined, i lost a sock in the mud somewhere... so should i worry about the rust? |
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05/12/2008 10:06:02 PM · #2 |
The tripod should be fine, but I would remove the battery from the camera, and get it to a dry place as soon as possible. If the camera and lens got sprinkled on, you may want to remove the lens from the body while it all dries out overnight. An incandescent light with reflector placed a few inches from the camera and lens will add enough heat to help with the drying without getting anything too hot. If you can hold you hand in the spot where the camera is going to be positioned in front of the light for 45 sec, then it should be ok at that distance from the bulb.
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05/12/2008 10:09:21 PM · #3 |
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05/12/2008 10:17:22 PM · #4 |
The sock shouldn't rust. : )
If you choose to dry the camera with a light, be sure to feel to see if it is getting too hot after about half an hour, and again in about an hour. Don't use a hair drier on the inside of the cam, as they blow out a ton of dust and sometimes hair bits as well. It's ok to use one on the outside, but keep it back a ways, and be careful about overheating any of the camera parts.
I am not sure about the Rebel XTI, but I know that some of the high end Canon cameras and lenses are weather sealed, so with them you can shoot when it is raining without worrying too much.
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05/12/2008 10:21:38 PM · #5 |
| Make sure you don't try drying the socks in the microwave, ask Slippy what happens when you do that:) Oh, and don't put the camera in there either. |
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05/12/2008 10:23:48 PM · #6 |
| oh thats cool! I think all fancy dancy cameras sould be water repellent or something. just so something like killing your camera doesn't happen |
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05/12/2008 10:24:30 PM · #7 |
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05/12/2008 10:41:50 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by JDubsgirl:
whoes slippy? |
 strikeslip, everyone calls him slippy though, and your camera will probably be just fine, I shot in the light rain with my D50 one time and it was fine, wouldn't advise it, but it was fine.
Message edited by author 2008-05-12 22:42:55.
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05/12/2008 10:45:43 PM · #9 |
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05/13/2008 12:01:55 AM · #10 |
coming from personal experience, loosing your XTi in the water may not be as bad as initially thought. If the camera was off and you got the battery out soon enough then my advice would be to let it sit for a good WEEK in a warm dry place to get most if not all the moisture out. If you are not comfy with taking it apart then grab as many as those little packets that come with your electronics to remove moisture or try a local RV dealer for a bucket of crystals that remove moisture from RV's over the winter and stick those in a bag with the XTi to suck the moisture out, again prob for a good week to be sure, but in either case not in direct sunlight.
My XTi was under water in a river for a good 90 seconds and survived for the most part, I had taken mine apart and put it inside one of my servers as there was a lot of air flow and was quite warm but if you give it at least a week and if the power was turned off or the battery removed fast enough then you may be ok. I imagine minerals and what not in the water would have an effect also, I got lucky so to speak as mine was in a river fed by a glacier about 14km up stream so the water was still pretty clean...
good luck to you..
-dave |
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