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Subject: Re: [Leica] water resistance?
From: "Stuart Phillips" <stuart.phillips@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 18:28:14 -0400
References: <F275CD22-BDD7-11D6-A921-0003930C1F28@bigfatpipe.net>

What would it do to the shutter curtain?
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From: "brad daly" <bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] water resistance?


>
> On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 11:23  AM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
> > Well, since there are no sensitive electronics that get ruined by a
> > drop of rain, I'd say the M6 is more weather resistant.  I wouldn't
> > advise that anybody try what I have done, but I've washed the M's out
> > in clean water after a dunking in rivers and mud, air-dried them (or
> > put them close to the fire ;-) ), and continued to use them.  I do send
> > them in for cleaning after I get back from a trip like that.  I don't
> > think there are many top-of-the-line SLR pro bodies that I could wash,
> > dry and continue to use.
>
> i seem to remember someone saying that back in the olden days you could
> immerse a waterlogged body in denatured alcohol to get out all the
> water, then let that dry out.  i'm not sure if this would damage any of
> the electronics on the M6 or M6TTL.
>
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