CF card survives wash

[Longwatcher]

Just felt like mentioning,

I accidently washed my Lexar 256MB card and it survived the wash (left it in a pants pocket). It had images on it and they copied over to the computer with no problem, I did have to reformat the card in the camera to make it useable again (versus just erasing the images, which while I don't trust, should have worked). Which indicates the card took some kind of hit, but I can't find anything wrong with it since reformating.

While I highly don't recommend that trick, it is nice to know the CF cards can survive a lot of stupidity and keep ticking.

[Conk]

Are your photo's comming out any cleaner and brighter?:D

[Longwatcher]

Conk wrote:
Are your photo's comming out any cleaner and brighter?:D

As a matter of fact....Yes.


This may be attributed to the fact that I have been playing with my new 50/1.4 that I just got, but it couldn't be that could it ;-)

Seriously, very nice lens, Even my 16-35/2.8 does not always lock on in Auto Focus in my living room at night with only the dining room light on (although it did have to hunt a bit twice). The only problem I had was I kept wanting to zoom it like my other lenses. Hopefully I shall see how it performs this weekend as I am supposed to have a couple models over for a portfolio shoot.

Now if I can just get my hands on a 10D (with much luck this weekend, but probably next month), I might be able to actually use the auto focus on a regular basis.

[Erin]

Just done the same thing to my cell phone, pulled out the washing and here it was smiling up at me fom the bottom of the bowl.

Gave it a good squirt with CRC and dried it with a fan heater, charged up the battery, turned it on and bingo it fired up.

Don't know how long it will work for and don't recommend this practice tho! Erin

[stduc]

A friend of mine had their 1G IBM microdrive in their kit bag where it got a drop of shampoo on it from a bottle that leaked. The card was only slightly damp on the top surface but it no longer works. You can hear it start to spin up in a card reader and then promptly spin right down again!

I think I'll be sticking with CF cards.

[satnitefever]

Yup, I have also tried the same but at first it was abit screwy..

[Mr-Wong]

I dropped an old Powershot 350 into a creek while hiking on the appalatian trail, got all muddy on the front and full of water. I took out the batteries right away, but had to wait until I got home to clean it. I opened it up and cleaned the mud off, and then just left it open for about a week to dry. I popped the batteries in and it fired right up, no problems at all.