RE: Spills in mirror box

["BIRKEY, DUANE" <dbirkey@hcjb.org.ec>]

Just for the record:  I have not had any problems personally with food 
and drink spills in my EOS 1n Mirror box or with my EOS lenses.  I 
rarely get to eat or drink while I'm working.    Rain, well having 
lived in Costa Rica and Ecuador for over 5 years, my F-1n's and Fd 
lenses have handled quite abit of rain, drizzle and mist without nary a 
problem.  EOS equipment stays in the office for foul weather jobs.   
HCJB has been building a  hydro reservoir up near 14000 ft.  and it 
rains and mists constantly.  Taking photos while keeping water off the 
front is a constant battle.  I don't shoot in the rain unless I have to 
though.   

I know people who have had spills and in my prior photographic retail 
experience we saw and heard  just about every excuse you could think of 
as to how things got into their camera.  

We had one guy who was in a rather bad accident and bled all over his 
camera in which the lens and lens mount was severed from the camera, 
blood was into everything.   To make matters worse, he didn't bring the 
camera to us until a week or so after he got out of the hospital.   
(Our repair shop politely declined to work on it.)  Another customer 
came back from Asia with several dozen small insects scurrying around 
inside her zoom lens.  I'm sure any repairman can tell you story after 
story.

So carelessness with liquids and cameras can lead to unfunctionallity.

Duane