Brendan, I suggest you get (or have somebody send) a big container of desiccant and make big dry-packs using basket or cone coffee filters. Get the desiccant at a hobby/crafts supply store - it is really cheap if you buy it for drying flowers. Put enough desiccant in each filter to make it about 1/4" thick in one half; the other half is folded over and then taped shut. Don't move them too fast, as some of the silica powder is fine enough to come through the filter paper. Follow the instructions on the desiccant package to dry the packs (probably something like 250 deg F for 3 to 5 hours). Put the lenses and d-packs in a closed space or container - minimize internal volume. Don't put the d-packs on or above the lenses, you don't want to get silica powder in them. Make two batches of d-packs and use one set for a day or two while the other set gets dried. I've successfully sucked the life out of a serious fungus colony in a Kiron 80-200/4.5, and I use a few d-packs in my lens drawers to help keep the fungaloids away. Nova Scotia isn't in the tropics, but it gets pretty 'fungafriendly' in the summer when it's 32 deg C and foggy.
Jim www.jcolwell.ca
