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My Canon SX30IS got slightly wet in salt water. Need your advise.

Started Apr 22, 2014 | Questions thread
Dale Buhanan Veteran Member • Posts: 4,280
Re: Try Contact Cleaner

I2K4 wrote:

You may be quite right. Though there's a fair amount of oil, gunk etc. in seawater that distilled water wouldn't clean. They're not really mutually exclusive. In fact, a virtue of the solvent is it will remove residual moisture if used after a water cleaning. The camera looks like a brick right now, so maybe worth a try, and the spray is handy for other purposes if it doesn't work.

That is a good idea.  Follow a fresh water clean with the solvent clean to remove oil based gunk and help speed drying.  At this point, it is worth trying.  Otherwise, the camera is likely a lost cause.  Not much more to lose.

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Dale

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