I worked on an advertising account of a European automobile manufacturer in the eighties. We shot a commercial on the beach at Normandy one year and were unaware of the pattern of the tides. To make a long story short, we drowned a $100,000 car in the salt water. We did manage to pull it out after it had been completely submerged, but it wouldn't run, and the manufacturer's engineers decided that it could not be salvaged. The body parts were removed, as were some other hardware fixtures, but the rest of the car was crushed for salvage. Salt water is a very bad thing. Paul
Alan Chan wrote: > >Anyway, lets change the initial question: The camera has been exposed to > >salt water (though not soaked in it), ceased to function, and come back to > >life. A service engineer found moisture related damages on a circuit board > >and claims that "ok, it works now, but you never know for how long. It > >might > >die as soon as it gets humid again, or start measuring exposure > >incorrectly, > >or it might just work forever". Would you, based upon your experience, > >trust > >his verdict or would you get a new body just to be safe? Comments? > > I GUESS what he mean was some parts would likely be corroded by sodium. > Logic dictates you might soak the whole thing in flesh water and flush any > sodium out (with covers removed). Let it dry and it should be back to normal > again. But then this is a very crazy idea and takes lots of gut. No, I > wouldn't do it myself unless I knew I could not get the sodium out any other > way. And of course, only if you could afford to lose it. > > >p.s. I'm leaving for a very special trip in September and I have to be able > >to trust my camera. If I can trust it I'll keep it, I don't like throwing > >perfectly good stuff away. If, however, there are reasons to believe the > >service guys I don't mind spending the money for a new body, even a MZ-S. > >d.s. > > I have a feeling that the MX shows its ago after 20 years, and neither your > MX nor MZ-3 is dependable (I could be wrong of course). > > regards, > Alan Chan > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
