RIP my Nikon s8000

Alastair Cummins

Alastair Cummins

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Well earlier I was on my laptop with my Nikon S8000 connected by a cable when I needed to move the computer a few inches closer to be comfy. Im a split second the camera falls off of the table directly into the cup of coffee on the floor...game over.

Ive left in the airing cupboard sincie 9am this morning but there is no life in it so far...gutted! :( :( :(
 
Gut wrenching moment when you see your camera heading south :(

You think it's got very wet then - or was it the impact?
 
Put it in a bowl of rice, worked wonders for the missis iphone after it went into a bucket of bleach

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What sort of sauce did you do with that Hamish - something creamy with garlic? :D


I have heard good things about the desiccant qualities of rice - definitely worth a shot
 
A lot of the mobile phone shops now offer a water damage service that involves a bag of silica gel stuff to suck out the moisture, or a bag can be bought online for about £8
 
Good luck Alastair. Let's hope the coffee residue doesn't cause a problem. If it seems to have then it might be worth trying to carefully rinse the affected parts with deionised water and then re-drying it. I know someone who used to repair laptops and one of the common problems was people spilling coffee on them. His standard repair was to open them up, rinse them under the tap and then with deionised water and then leave them to dry in a warm place. £80!

I also had a friend who was travellng for a year and, 2 months in, in Thailand her Canon got splashed getting on a small boat. It instantly stopped working. Luckily it was insured and the insuranc company immediately authorised her to buy a new body, which she did. She posted the old one back to me via surface mail. By the time it arrived it had dried out and was working perfectly. She now has a spare body!

So I reckon there is hope.

IPhone in bleach Hamish. Couldn't she wait for the white one to come out?!! ;)
 
Water does not damage electronics. Water plus electricity is fatal in most cases. A friend who designed the Amiga 3000 a couple of decades back defluxed and cleaned his protoype circuit boards in his dishwasher. Only when they were perfectly dry, did he apply the volts. Let it dry for as long as you think it will take, then double that.
 
I washed the circuit board of my old technics turntable in the kitchen sink with fairy liquid ... I even scrubbed it with a brush!
Left it out in the sun for a bit and it was fine!

The problem with cameras and water damage is often that they go in water switched on or that the user try's in panic to switch tem on straight away!
Or of course that there is somthing in the water that causes corrosion quickly ...

Cameras also have very high voltages in them which I have previously been told can arc when gotten wet ... ?

On the note of high voltage and cameras, if you ever feel the urge to take one apart, it's the area around the flash gun that should be avoided (learn from my mistake) ;)
 
Well the camera has been sat in a bowl of rice for the last few days but while it still turns on it now comes up with a lens error and the pciture on the screen looks like ISO 1,000,000*

So I think with what it cost me, sending it off for repair would be too much so il stick it on Ebay or something if it dosnt get any better :(

*I maybe exagerating slightly
 
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