Christine, I've never gotten so involved with sand, only a little at a time. I'd use a wet cloth and brush to remove all the loose sand I could. I'd exercise all the switches on the body to make sure all the sand is out. I don't think water or sand can make it past the doors on the body like for the sd card. The flash is going to be difficult to clean-up. As for the Sigma lens, I have no experience. It's pretty hard to keep sand out of lenses. You'll have to patiently work your way thru it. Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Christine Nielsen <[email protected]> wrote: > While I was in the water with my kids yesterday at the beach, a pack > of seagulls descended on our pile of gear in search of food. To bring > my camera to the beach, I had taken the foam camera bag insert from my > handbag, in which it usually resides, and placed it inside a plastic > grocery bag, tied shut, to keep the sand and water out. I placed that > whole mess inside our beach bag, safely nestled among the towels, etc. > There was no food in that bag. But that didn't stop those winged > varmints from looking! I think they have learned that plastic grocery > bags usually contain food (last week, I saw a gull fly off with a bag > of snacks from a family's stash), so when they found the one with my > camera, they pulled it out, dragged it across the sand, and opened it, > unceremoniously dumping out the contents. Imagine my horror upon > finding the business end of my lens half-submerged in sand, surrounded > by hundreds of webbed foot prints! > > I did my best to carefully brush off the sand. It was everywhere. > The on/off switch was "sticky" at first, but that seems to have worked > itself out. Does the AF sound noisier than before? Am I imagining > that the shutter sounds clankier? Argh!! > > So here's my question: now what do I do? Is it possible that tiny > grains of sand could get in there & gunk up the works? My camera - > the k7 - is "weatherproof". The lens - a sigma 17-70 -- makes no such > claim. I've removed the sd card, carefully inspecting and removing > with a brush any grains of sand around the door. I figure I should do > the same with the lens... but are there other steps I should be > taking? > > OTOH, everything seems to be working, I had a UV filter on my lens... > and luckily - I'm guessing those gulls shoot Nikon. > > :) > -c > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
