1D dropped into the sea - advice anyone

Therefore the camera body + lens can't be 100% sealed.

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ekn said:

BTW, as anybody with a marine aquarium will attest, there is
something known as "salt creep". If any salt water does get past
the seals, it will migrate nicely throughout the interior ruining
everything.

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--Yes, exactly. Now your getting closer to the true insidious nature of salt corrosion. Once there is corrosion, it must be removed to arrest the process; rinsing alone is not enough.

Try using Teflon pipe sealing tape at the base of the lense mount flange; works nicely to help seal out dust. I use it all the time, about 2X turns and stretch it a bit as you wrap. Replace as needed.

-the old man down the road-

If you don't remove the batteries absolutely immediately, you can pretty much drop the camera on the floor and stamp all over it.

Fundamentally, energized electronics corrode themselves like crazy when salt water is present at the same time as power. Unfortunately, surface mount devices have a nasty habit of trapping moisture even when the whole assembly has been washed with distilled water or (my personal favorite) denatured alcohol.

Graham

Send it to the Zippo cigarette lighter folks. They love to recover from such situations.

It's the salt that is the enemy, not the water.

And if you let it dry into crystals it can break the seals, after which you have big problems considering how corrosive it is.

However, I told some people on the forum about this procedure a while ago, and they thought I was crazy.

--len

It was not a real comfortable feeling but it resulted in no ill effects at all when the camera dried out. FWIW, I was using a 17-40L lens.

Had I been the OP I would have removed the battery, removed the non-sealed lens, put ON a sealed lens (provided one was handy) and then rinsed the camera with distilled water after inserting the AC 'fake' battery to seal up the battery compartment without actually provding any power to the camera.

Then, it might be best to open up every possible orifice to the camera (remove lens, battery, open the CF/SD slot, etc...) to help it dry out more quickly. It could also be placed in a box with dessicant to remove moisture a little more quickly.

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Does the camera body cap make a tight enough seal to be trusted instead of a selaed L series lens? If so, that would be the way to rinse it.

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steve1984 said:

It still turns
on but just reports err99 at the moment. They've not tried the
shutter yet though.

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Just a random thought... Is this the same error you get if the CF door is open when you turn the camera on?

I have often wondered about salt in the air. I now live near the sea and judging from what my windows look like if I do not clean them often enough I wonder what all of this will do to the inside of my camera. Anyone with experience of this?

Barnett

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I have used my D60 almost sins day one on the beach, caught in salt water spray regularly, it is still fine today, i have killed off a couple of lenses (coatings destroyed) but the cam has NEVER been a proplem, strange thing is, i wont subject my 1DsII to the same treatment even though its sealed

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I had a "rogue" type wave engulf me and a broadcast video camera while covering a story on endangered sea turtles on a relatively calm day. I was in less than knee deep water at the time. Anyway, I immediately shut it down and turned it in to our techs within about 45 minutes of the drenching. There was still some seawater inside.

They immediately dismantled it and sprayed everything down with a water displacing chemical safe for electronics. Sorry I don't recall the name. When I left about 3 years later, the camera was still being used on a daily basis and working fine. The lens which has a motorized zoom mechanism was cleaned too as a precaution but not dismantled as it didn't get wet.

How did he pay for it...

I'm asking because my son dropped his into an open Ice chest and it stayed there for several hours in cold water....

I called Master Card ( gold card ) and they replaced it under their purchase insurance... the card also doubled the waranty period...

as a bonus, they sent us a check in full.... and didn't want the other flooded camera... a paperweight it is..

Now I allways make sure I buy my camera equipment with that card and just pay it off at the end of the month...

worth a call to the credit card company if it was a gold master card he purchased it with...

Get it replace by insurance. Salt water is bad.