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Old 10th September 2017, 08:37   #132952
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Originally Posted by coolcat View Post
Bright sunshine here

Which is an improvement on the disaster yesterday afternoon.

Left the shop for Ipswich Audi in lovely sunshine, started taking the photos when a deluge fell on us.

In the rain my camera (which is weather sealed) decided enough was enough and the rear screen decided to flicker then go off

We had to stop the photo shoot anyway as it was chucking it down.
I stripped the camera down in the car and put the heating on and drove home.

Camera has spent the night with all seals open laying over a bowl of dried rice in the airing cupboard.

I hope it is okay as I'm out all next week working and if still not working it will be off to Colchester Camera Repair and see if I can hire a loan camera body in the meanwhile

If I had known a couple of months back that I was going full time as a professional photographer I wouldn't have sold my other camera body.
Either way, this tells me now that I do need to have a back up body should this happen again as my camera is no longer my hobby thing, it is my tool to earn me a living!

I'll let you all know if the camera is working a bit later, want to give it as much time as possible to dry out before trying to power it up again.
Would an hairdryer do the job Jeff, just a thought .
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