On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:50:37 -0700 (PDT)
AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<SNIP>
> 2. Rainstorm. Well, I'm a great fan of those freebie
> shower-caps from hotel stays. Go ahead and tripod mount the
> camera/lens and pop the cap over it. The elastic band holds it
> in place in everything but a typhoon. Lift up the shower-cap
> from the lens just long enough to focus and shoot.
Excellent idea. I should try that - never thought that those
shower-caps could be usefull for anything, but this is worth a
try....
<SNIP>
> Of the dozen or so times that I've soaked my camera equipment I
> let it air out in the sun. Nothing that some natural UV can't
> take care of. I've only had two lenses ever develop any kind of
> fungus and I sold those.
Ahh, so those were the "Olympus Silver-Nosed 100/2.8 soft portrait
lens - special limited production run from Olympus for the
professional portrait photographer" that went on the bay a while ago
:)
<SNIP>
> AG-full disclosure-Schnozz
--thomas
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