ScubaCatgirl
Contributor
Just got back from a wonderful vacation, but had a strange occurance occur with my camera. Am curious to see if anyone here has had a similar situation or can shed some light into this situation. As it was we were vacationing in Roatan were it was extremely humid and lucky us got a room with a air conditioner from anartica, lol. Meaning, it froze us out, we could not turn it up & I literally shivered under blankets at night. It took a good 5 minutes after leaving the room before the glasses on my face defogged & another 15-20 minutes for the land camera to defog, sometimes longer. I suspect it took the Sealife DC500 the same amount of time to defog from the tempature differance as well.
The 1st dive I took it out on it work wonderfully. The 2nd dive of the day. Nothing. It froze up on me & I ended up diving with a dead camera. When I left the water I noticed that inside of the housing was all fogged up. Now, I know you might suspect the batteries, but they are fairly new & had been charged within the last few days, so I know it wasn't the batteries. That night I opened the housing & discovered some water in the housing & figured the camera was ruined. WRONG! Yahoo!!!! I inserted a new battery & the camera came to life & I got to review all the pictures I took of the 1st dive. I changed the O-ring just to be safe & took the camera with me on the dive the following day.
The Sealife DC500 worked on the 1st dive of the day & on the 2nd dive, just like the previous day, it died!!! Ok, something strange is going on here. After the 2nd dive I looked at the housing & camera & sure enough, there was fog inside the housing again. I went straight to the camera shop, housing & all. We dried it off & opened it up. Now, the camera itself..........it's on & off button is permanetly depressed & won't budge. Both the camera expert & myself conclude that the camera is dead. Why, we have no idea as there was no water in the housing today when we opened it up & it was working last night after I inserted a new battery into it & before I went on the dive today, just to make sure, I inserted a freshly charged battery instead. Camera is dead as a doornail. So I rented a camera for the week & figured I'd be buying a new one when I got home.
I completed my dives for the day, & later that evening, just the grins of it, I decided to put a new battery in the camera & freak of freak. I was able to turn the camera on.
So can someone tell me what in the world in going on with my camera? Why did the on & off button get stuck? Did the differences between the freezing room & the higher humidity difference play a factor into the camera malfunction? Or is the camera just possessed, lol?
The 1st dive I took it out on it work wonderfully. The 2nd dive of the day. Nothing. It froze up on me & I ended up diving with a dead camera. When I left the water I noticed that inside of the housing was all fogged up. Now, I know you might suspect the batteries, but they are fairly new & had been charged within the last few days, so I know it wasn't the batteries. That night I opened the housing & discovered some water in the housing & figured the camera was ruined. WRONG! Yahoo!!!! I inserted a new battery & the camera came to life & I got to review all the pictures I took of the 1st dive. I changed the O-ring just to be safe & took the camera with me on the dive the following day.
The Sealife DC500 worked on the 1st dive of the day & on the 2nd dive, just like the previous day, it died!!! Ok, something strange is going on here. After the 2nd dive I looked at the housing & camera & sure enough, there was fog inside the housing again. I went straight to the camera shop, housing & all. We dried it off & opened it up. Now, the camera itself..........it's on & off button is permanetly depressed & won't budge. Both the camera expert & myself conclude that the camera is dead. Why, we have no idea as there was no water in the housing today when we opened it up & it was working last night after I inserted a new battery into it & before I went on the dive today, just to make sure, I inserted a freshly charged battery instead. Camera is dead as a doornail. So I rented a camera for the week & figured I'd be buying a new one when I got home.
I completed my dives for the day, & later that evening, just the grins of it, I decided to put a new battery in the camera & freak of freak. I was able to turn the camera on.
So can someone tell me what in the world in going on with my camera? Why did the on & off button get stuck? Did the differences between the freezing room & the higher humidity difference play a factor into the camera malfunction? Or is the camera just possessed, lol?