Oh Did I screw Up

[Splitpair21 4]

Early Thursday afternoon I went outside to try to discover why our central A/C is no longer working, since both the compressor and condenser fan where not running the combo run (compressor/fan) capacitor had become defective.

After cutting power I removed the access cover and was going to disconnect the wiring from the capacitor, I stopped and decided no I need to take a couple photos of how the wiring was connected to the cap.

Using my older 60D I took a couple of photographs, disconnect the wiring and determine the cap was defective.

Back inside my office while searching for a replacement cap I noticed it was pouring down rain outside, normal for this time of year, then for some reason I turned around looked at the right rear corner of my desk and realized the camera was not there, it was outside in the pouring down rain.

I ran outside grabbed it and ran back inside, grabbing a towel from the bathroom I wrapped it all in the towel, grabbed another towel and dried myself off.

Looking at the camera before I dried it off it looked like it has been sprayed with a fire hose, I retrieved a box of WypAll's out of the pantry, back at my desk I noticed the camera was on and the battery was showing fully charged, I pulled the battery out of the handle and remove the handle from the body.

I dried the body and lens the best I could, then removed the lens, I was thinking of placing covers on both ends of the lens and a cover on the body then decided to leave it all open.

Somewhere out in my shop there are a couple of sealed gallon buckets with two large bags of drying desiccant in them, I couldn't find them so I wrapped the body and lens each in two large bath towels.

Friday afternoon I installed a battery in the body it seemed to work properly so I attached the lens and it worked properly as well, I took at all apart and then re-wrapped the body and the lens in two clean and dry bath towels and will test it all out tomorrow.

For now it seems Canon did a good job of making the body and lens water resistant, but I will never test either of them again for water resistance.

 

[denum141 167]

Hope all is ok! Fingers crossed.

 

[zombiesniper138 3]

Almost all cameras and lenses do have at least a minor amount of weather resistance so that is in your favour. If it was only for a few minutes you may have caught it in time. When you removed the lens from the camera, did you notice any moisture inside the mounting surfaces?

Hope you got it all and there will be no drama but do watch out for weird things in the future such as an error code between the body and lens ER01 I believe is for this one.

 

[Splitpair21 4]

When you removed the lens from the camera, did you notice any moisture inside the mounting surfaces?

It was nice and dry inside, which amazed me considering how wet the body and lens was.