Shower caps for protection. Sure you gave me a damn good idea.
Best regards
Stylianos Georgakis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Heide Clausen" <T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 1:33 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Camera -- to abuse or not ?
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:50:37 -0700 (PDT)
> AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > 2. Rainstorm. Well, I'm a great fan of those freebie
> > shower-caps from hotel stays. Go ahead and tripod mount the
> > camera/lens and pop the cap over it. The elastic band holds it
> > in place in everything but a typhoon. Lift up the shower-cap
> > from the lens just long enough to focus and shoot.
>
> Excellent idea. I should try that - never thought that those
> shower-caps could be usefull for anything, but this is worth a
> try....
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > Of the dozen or so times that I've soaked my camera equipment I
> > let it air out in the sun. Nothing that some natural UV can't
> > take care of. I've only had two lenses ever develop any kind of
> > fungus and I sold those.
>
> Ahh, so those were the "Olympus Silver-Nosed 100/2.8 soft portrait
> lens - special limited production run from Olympus for the
> professional portrait photographer" that went on the bay a while ago
> :)
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > AG-full disclosure-Schnozz
>
> --thomas
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