[Leica] Adventures

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

I once fell into a unmarked pool with my Nikon D4 and 200-400mm lens, which
stayed immersed for maybe 5 minutes, before being brought out.

I had mentally written them off, but the technicians at Nikon India service
managed to resurrect both of them to life (at a combined cost of US$700 or
so, unbelievably reasonable!), and both show no ill effects today and work
fine. I did not even attempt to use them - just removed the batteries/cards
and let them dry out naturally. It must be kept in mind, though, that both
the camera and lens had state of the art weather sealing for that time,
which I am sure helped a lot.

Cheers
Jayanand


On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 5:57 AM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> PESO:
> Now that I'm safe and warm and dry in a hotel, the adventures of today seem
> almost funny - almost.
> We signed up yesterday for a night safari in the Nam-et Phou Louey National
> Park along with a German couple in their early 50's and 3 British doctors
> in their 20's. We headed up the Nam Nern River in 3 long boats with guides
> and boatmen. Because it's dry season and the river was so low, we had to
> portage the boats three times, crossing over steep rocks and mud. After 4
> or 5 hours we arrived at the place where we had a picnic dinner and waited
> for sunset. After dark, we headed back down the river with the motors off,
> in total silence, spotting animals with our flashlights. We saw deer and
> civets and owls. We arrived at our very basic camp about 10:30. The next
> morning before dawn, I had the urge to visit the outhouse. I forgot that
> there was a large step down from our cabin to the porch. I fell hard,
> landing on my hip and slamming my head against the porch post, splitting my
> ear. There was a prodigious amount of blood. I managed not to scream and
> wake everybody up but as soon as the doctors were awake they examined my
> ear. Thank goodness, they had a very impressive medical kit, including
> suture glue that is used instead of stitches. They cleaned my cuts with
> iodine (!) and put my ear back together with the glue. After wrapping my
> whole head in gauze, they said I really should have it looked at by the
> doctor at the local clinic. Tom and I headed back down the river with 2
> boatmen and a guide. The boatman was so alarmed by the amount of blood that
> he was going as fast as he could down the rapids in the river. The guide
> told him several times to slow down. About 3/4 of the way there, the boat
> hit a tree stump under the water. The front of the boat went up in the air
> and the back went under the water. Since Tom was in the front, he only got
> his feet wet. In the back, I was in ice-cold water up to my neck. I held my
> cameras up and yelled, "Save my cameras!" The guide and boatmen pulled me
> out of the water and onto the rocks where we waited half an hour for the
> other boats to come by and pick us up. Our boat and motor were wrecked so
> we rode back in with the others and went immediately to the clinic. The
> doctor cleaned my ear again, pronounced the glue as doing a great job, and
> said I would not need more stitches. I was still sopping wet and shivering.
> We drove 5 more hours to our hotel and I gradually dried out. The SL camera
> is fine. The Monochrome is not. I hope it will recover. I have all of my
> electronic gear spread on the bed to dry and I have had a hot shower and
> washed all of my clothes. Now I'm going to have some rice wine and download
> photos.--
>
> My Monochrome is still not working this morning.  It's full of moisture.
> Any suggestions on how to dry it out??  I thought about getting a bag of
> rice and putting the camera in it but I'm afraid the rice would get all in
> the camera and make it worse.  Maybe it's shot.  😢
>
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