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Started Jul 14, 2017 | Discussions thread
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BobORama
BobORama Senior Member • Posts: 2,842
Re: Water Damage to Exposure Meter

Andrew Schwartz wrote:

Everything else seems to work as normal, and in particular the exposure meter works fine in liveview mode.

What specifically do you mean?   Is the metering merely inaccurate?   Severely over or under exposed?

Metering in live view is accomplished by the image data read directly from the sensor.  Metering in TTL is does through a small sensor located approximately above the view finder above and behind the pentaprism.   So water entering around the eye piece could have created a problem,  but as the sensor is a sealed IC package, I have a hard time believing that this did not dry out which would restore function.   Just condensation should not cause permanent damage, IMO.

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