nigelblake
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Today I had what at first appeared to be a very nasty accident.
Whilst changing CF card and removing my Zigview digital viewfinder from the 1Ds MkII + 600mm, I caught my tripod with a chord loop on my fleece jacket, the whole lot crashed to the ground (about 4 inches of water, extract of cows bottom and mud)
I managed to grab the camera etc so the impact was fairly light, but the Zigview went straight in the river, my camera was, to say the least, very well covered in crud. and I felt sick. OK its insured but it all takes alot of messing around to get that all sorted out.
However, I washed the camera under a running tap and dried it, apart from a little scuff in the paint on the top-plate it survived and when checked over was working as it should, this is testament to just how good Canon's water/dust seals on this camera are, a very big sigh of relief.
The Zigview when retrieved from a watery grave did not work though, but I put it in the sun, on the dashboard of the car and went back to taking more pictures, about 3 hours later when I got back to the car I tried the 'on' switch on the Zigview and very much to my surprise that was working OK too, today I feel like I have been very lucky!!
Whilst changing CF card and removing my Zigview digital viewfinder from the 1Ds MkII + 600mm, I caught my tripod with a chord loop on my fleece jacket, the whole lot crashed to the ground (about 4 inches of water, extract of cows bottom and mud)
I managed to grab the camera etc so the impact was fairly light, but the Zigview went straight in the river, my camera was, to say the least, very well covered in crud. and I felt sick. OK its insured but it all takes alot of messing around to get that all sorted out.
However, I washed the camera under a running tap and dried it, apart from a little scuff in the paint on the top-plate it survived and when checked over was working as it should, this is testament to just how good Canon's water/dust seals on this camera are, a very big sigh of relief.
The Zigview when retrieved from a watery grave did not work though, but I put it in the sun, on the dashboard of the car and went back to taking more pictures, about 3 hours later when I got back to the car I tried the 'on' switch on the Zigview and very much to my surprise that was working OK too, today I feel like I have been very lucky!!