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Originally Posted by Lancashire Lad  I wouldn't be so hasty as to say this.
I used to take underwater photographs with a Nikonos V, and once had a failure of the main o-ring, (during a live-aboard based diving hol. to the Red Sea), completely flooding the camera with sea water.
No repair facilities out there 
I had nothing to lose, so flushed the camera out with buckets of fresh water to get rid of the salts, and left it on deck to dry.
Replaced the o-ring and dived with it the following day fully operational. I kept and used the camera for a further three years without any further problems.
So, what I'm saying is flush it, & dry it, you may just be surprised.
Regards,
Mike. |
I believe the Nikonos was a film camera.
Modern digital cameras are packed with motors, tiny IC's (Processors, memory, displays, CCD sensor chip etc) having 128 pins and more on a 1cm square piece of multi layer circuit board. Any circuit board corrosion can have catasrophic consequences - if not now, but certainly in the near future. You are talking a massive amount of connections that need to be reliably maintained, or the camera is toast.
What you could get away with in the old days is certainly not what you could get away with today.
Nick, by all means have a go at drying out your camera, but if it was mine I wouldn't bother. But, you have nothing to lose by trying.
Please don't pay anyone else to have a go at your financial risk.