Sounds like the Moskitia area of Honduras. Where in Central America did you
go Moose?
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 4:33 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Which equipment to Thailand?
> Olli Hänninen wrote:
>
>>Thanks for the ideas on seal-able plastic bags. Worst case scenario is
>>that
>>a boat turns upside down and my bodies and lenses get soaking wet. By
>>keeping some equipment in plastic bags I will protect atleast some of my
>>equipment. Or am I just being too paranoid? :-)
>>
>>
> Never been to SE Asia. I did spent 3 weeks in Central America, which
> involved some "interesting" small boat travel. Ever gone out the mouth a
> fair sized river into the incoming waves in a small boat? Pretty
> exciting, and there were other opportunities for liquid disaster to
> strike...
>
> I also spent quite a bit of time in mountain and swamp rain forests. The
> air conditioned room solution proposed in other posts wasn't available
> most of where I was. In the rain forests, nothing at all is ever quite
> dry. Quite odd for a temperate zone fellow.
>
> All camera equipment was kept in zip lock bags whenever not in use. I
> took along lots of little bags of silica gel, throughly dried out at
> home and also sealed up air tight. The back-up body and lens were sealed
> in double bags at home with gel in them. Ended up going home that way
> too, but their presence was welcome at a few points in the trip.
>
> The working gear, OM-2n, Tokina 28mm, 35-70/3.6, 100/2.8 and Tokina
> 80-200 were kept in zip locks with the air sucked out and gel packets
> inside whenever not in use for long. I slowly switched used for fresh
> Gel packs through the trip. Again, there was generally no place to dry
> them out.
>
> Whether it was all overkill, I don't know. I know everything performed
> perfectly and came home in fine shape. I did see a Nik*n wunderbrick go
> crazy in the jungle. It started making all kinds of odd noises and the
> AF ran in and out like crazy. The serious, lengthy damp isn't good for
> unsealed electronics. OM-2n was unfazed. I didn't try it on the river
> rafting, so no pics. I should have taken something waterproof. :-( Sure
> was fun, though. :-) No warm water like that around here.
>
> Moose
>
>
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