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Date Uploaded: Nov 6, 2008

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 my XTi and my 17-40 F4L had gone in to a river and were completely submerged long enough to fill both completely with water, the Body I didnt even try to send that in to Canon, I ripped the battery out and the backup battery as well as soon as I got it out of the water. When I got home I disasembled the body as far as I could and put all the parts inside my biggest server and left it there to cook for a week as the internal temp sits about 35C and the fans pump through about 500cfm of air lol.

The lens I did send in to Canon and they didnt even take it out of the bag, they just said I needed to replace it and gave me a quote that was $50 HIGHER than what I could get it for at my camera store. Told them no thanks and to send the lens back, heres where it gets good. The f***wit at the canon service center tried for 30min to convince me the lens was toast and wasnt worth sending back and that they would "dispose" it for me. After almost threatening to come down and climb over the counter slap him silly and find it myself, numbnuts agrees to send it back. I got it back still with a little water in it (how I knew they did nothing to it) and figured I had nothning to loose if I took it apart myself, so I did...



I finally got down to lens group #3 in the photo and sadly discovered that there are 2 lenses glued together there behind the iris (which the iris fell apart and took me 2 hours to get that back together) and that they had water between them. I left everything on the table and went to bed. Got up the next am to discover that the water had evaporated and was clear of any water marks. So I went through the daunting task of putting it back together...

That afternoon I took these with the lens.

year and a half its still going strong, just as sharp and working great...



A vast majority of the photos in my portfolio are with that same lens ;)

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 07/02/2009 07:17:34 PM
And it still worked? I'm impressed!
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 07/02/2009 05:18:05 PM
Maybe you should give lessons to Dr. Achoo. ;o)

I'd have to keep the cats out of the room while this is happening or they would consider all the parts as toys.
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 12/18/2008 09:37:09 PM
Holy crap. This is just too painful to see.
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 11/18/2008 09:51:34 PM
Originally posted by wizardry:
For you to be able to put that back together and have it still be functional is very impressive ;-)


yea well you just pit it back together the opposite that you take it apart :)

It was harder to take apart than put back together ;)
 11/18/2008 04:47:20 PM
For you to be able to put that back together and have it still be functional is very impressive ;-)
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