shani
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Hi all,
I've had a very wet summer here in Northern NSW Australia and as a result all of my lenses got lens fungus so I had them repaired at a hefty $1700 and now have bought a heap of 50g packets of silica gel from hong kong and have them all stored in (hopefully) air tight tupperware and am praying that it doesn't happen again. The silica packets have alluminium containers and the beads turn from orange to green when they have absorbed all the moisture they can. After a couple of weeks I took them out of the airtight container for a wedding and put them in my camera bag with the lenses and they all turned green overnight. Up until this point, in the airtight containers, they hadn't changed colour. So I put them in the oven at 250 degrees celsius for about 3 hours and when I checked on them, some of them had warped and some had turned black and the rest were orange. I later realised that the instructions were for Fahrenheit not celsius and as such I had over cooked them by about 100 degrees.
Does anyone know if you can burn these and if they will still work after overcooking? Or do I need to buy new ones?
I've had a very wet summer here in Northern NSW Australia and as a result all of my lenses got lens fungus so I had them repaired at a hefty $1700 and now have bought a heap of 50g packets of silica gel from hong kong and have them all stored in (hopefully) air tight tupperware and am praying that it doesn't happen again. The silica packets have alluminium containers and the beads turn from orange to green when they have absorbed all the moisture they can. After a couple of weeks I took them out of the airtight container for a wedding and put them in my camera bag with the lenses and they all turned green overnight. Up until this point, in the airtight containers, they hadn't changed colour. So I put them in the oven at 250 degrees celsius for about 3 hours and when I checked on them, some of them had warped and some had turned black and the rest were orange. I later realised that the instructions were for Fahrenheit not celsius and as such I had over cooked them by about 100 degrees.
Does anyone know if you can burn these and if they will still work after overcooking? Or do I need to buy new ones?