The worst threat is fungi growing on your lens. The humididity gets into everything, even the inside of the lenses where you can't clean.
I'm also off to Malaysia next week for 3 weeks. I'm bringing lots of dessicant canisters that I bought from Porters a while back. I figure that if I leave my camera and lens overnight in gallon ziplock bags with a dessicant canisters, it should retard some of the growth of fungi on the glass surfaces. The canisters are "rechargeable" by sticking them in an oven and they have an indicator button that changes color when they're "full". With 98% humidity in Malaysia, that should only be about a day or two. :( Karen p.s. I also have some dessicant pouches from various food items, but a lot of them contain a crushed white powder (not the solid salt crystals in the canister) that might cause problems with Immigration if they leaked. The spilled chemical looks too much like a certain controlled substance (or a certain biotoxin causing problems in the u.s.). > >I'm off to Bali in January for a couple of weeks. Will the very high >humidity pose a threat to my camera equipment? I have an EOS50E plus >assorted consumer level lenses. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
