Reusing your dessicant packs, eh?
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Larry C:Reusing your dessicant packs, eh?
Read the manual for your housing, and you will find dire warnings about leaving your camera in it's housing out in direct sunlight. Not good... they're perfect little ovens.friscuba:I actually haven't used a dessicant pack in 5 years and never had a problem with any of my cameras or housings fogging 'til the camera sat in the sun one day a bit over a week ago. It fogged up bigtime that day and I've had no troubles since 'til yeasterday.. very sunny and the camera rinse bucket got quite warm. Few, if any, of my friends use dessicants either.
I live up mauka (up the mountain) and the house is much more humid than out on the boat. I think any sun or heat just brings the moisture in the camera out. I'll have to be more careful to keep things in the shadows, else it's time to invest in dessicants.
Larry C:I've reused the same 2 dessicants about 50 times. Just wrap them in a paper towel and nuke them for about 30 seconds, several times. They're good as new.
Thanks for sharing; just got my sp-350 about 3 weeks ago and keep forgetting to try out the vid uw. Put a little music to itfriscuba:I'm curious as to how many divers with the newer point and shoots ever even try the video function many of them have.
I picked up an Oly sp-350 and have been playing around with it. Today I shot a couple minutes of video. It was reasonably OK, the manual white balance even worked with it. It probably can't compare with a dedicated video camera for anything more than e-mail or basic web stuff, but it isn't bad if you aren't trying to produce anything sellable or viewed in large format.
Anyone out there use their video capabilities on their digi-cams much?
later,