Re: Brand New TG6 Screen Foggy After 15 Min. Use (dry)
SaraPia wrote:
I understand about hot and humid, but the day mentioned it was sunny and dry and the camera was not in the water at all. We were on the beach, not swimming, because it was too windy and a little chilly. The screen almost immediately was 75% fogged over.
You need to be more specific. If the exterior of the LCD was fogged over and it can be wiped off, that's not a problem with the camera. If the condensation can't be wiped off and the blurry display isn't due to lens fogging, you definitely have a faulty LCD. This became a problem with the TG-5. But I don't I don't remember reports of other models having this issue. It could happen if the LCD was damaged.
While the TG6 is in the process of being replaced I am using the TG4, and yes, yesterday in the water the back screen was foggy and mottled, and the lens was partially fogged. I still managed to get some good shots, however. In this shot you cfan see, top right, where it's a bit foggy.
Again, if the lens was fogged on the outside, that's normal and not a camera problem. If the lens is fogged internally, it simply means you have moist air sealed inside the camera.
I stored the camera overnight in a bag of rice, with doors open, will try again today.
Rice is pretty much useless. You take rice that's been sitting around in 70% humidity and seal it and your camera in a bag. Somehow it's supposed to continue absorbing moisture. Doesn't work that way. Rice only works to some degree if there's liquid water preset that will increase humidity above the level the rice has been exposed to. You want the air inside the camera to have a dew point low enough that internal fogging can't happen. Rice from your pantry won't do that.