[Leica] Ideal Humidity for storage - or - it ain't the heat, it's the humidity.

[jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

You need to put a dessicant inside...and have it reasonably airtight.
Cheers
Jayanand

Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:

> Here is a horror story.
> Once, while on a trip to the Mohave Desert, a friend of mine stored  
> his newly purchased 35mm Summaron-M in a plastic baggy, inside a  
> jacket (leather) pocket.  Several days later, while cleaning out his  
> camera bag, he remembered that he had the lens in the jacket pocket.  
> When he took it out, the bag was filled with moisture. The lens  
> elements were clouded over from a continual steaming, and the helical  
> system, and diaphragm were completely frozen. During those days,  
> before ebay, it was considered a total lose.
> The next lens he bought, an M3 35mm Summilux-M, he took better care of.
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> Slobodan Dimitrov
> Studio G-8,
> Angels Gate Cultural Center
> http://sdimitrovphoto.com
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> On May 5, 2006, at 7:58 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
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>> Again from a very high humidity climate, I store equipment that I  am 
>> not using  in Ziploc bags with silica gel or in an ordinary  storage 
>> cupboard with a bucket of silica gel inside - both work  pretty well, 
>> keeps the fungus out.
>> Jayanand Govindaraj
>> Chennai, India
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