That's true. Making a camera dust/fine sand proof is much harder than waterproof. Water evaporates; sand just grinds away. We had a guy give us a talk about building lunar (and ultimately martian) equipment to deal with that insanely fine and sharp lunar dust. They needed materials that dust just wouldn't stick to.
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 2:06 AM, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 12, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > >> If nothing else, I would be afraid to scratch the glass with >> the sand particles. > > My father-in-law spent 6 months in Afghanistan as part of the NZ Provincial > Reconstruction Team a few years ago. He came back with some amazing photos. > I'd love to go there when things settle down. > > He said the dust gets into everything and you just can't avoid it. You can > minimise it but you can't eliminate it. > > Dave > > > -- > 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
