For us here in Hong Kong with high humidity the plastic dry box with silica
gel never work, unless you put the lenses inside and never open it. I have
lots of trouble with the above setup for years until I got an electronic dry
box, already over twelve years without one lens got fungus. Only spent
US$200 and it save guard my thirty plus Zuikos, no worry about changing
silica gel too.
C.H.Ling
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>
> VERY simple. Does food get moldy if left in the daylight on the
> kitchen counter? Room temp down to freezing and HUMIDITY. Humidity
> and humidity and humidity and...... Without moisture, spores can not
> propagate. Spores are EVERYWHERE.
> Dry container, even a cheap plastic 'bucket' or food tray with a snap
> top lid PLUS drying agent, i.e. silica gel which is CHEAP in bulk is
> the effective and complete answer. I purchase bulk silica gel and place
> in a cotton sock with a knot in the end. Easily regenerated. (NO!!!!
> I did not use the apropos for me and everyone else, but hate mail
> generating K-I-S-S.) Zip lock bags are great and I use them but not
> really protection against humidity. Share what I have learned the HARD
> way: need not be expensive, just effective and simple.
> Bill
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