D90 dropped in the ocean

<p>Use the lens elements as components in your personal defense system... when the time comes.</p>

<p>When I did much diving as an avid SCUBA diver and underwater photographer water in the cameras was a problem many divers had to deal with. I had it happen once to me and was always told to NOT take it out of the water; we would bag it in the salt water then take out the cards and batteries and start soaking and flushing in a bucket of fresh water on the boat. to my knowledge NONE survived even these extreme tries. Salt water just killed them all.</p>

<p>The consumer bodies are not meant to be taken apart anyway. CLA is limited to a puff with the air gun. The sodium in the water will have eaten everything, unless it was in just for a couple of seconds, then you might have a hope.</p>

<p>lol i read this excerpt in the morning and found it amuzing all day but i could of sworn there was some sort of liquid you know like those that they sell on tv saying that if you were to place any electronic into this liquid it would protect and valuable possesion from harm but i agree with whoever said to use it as a paperweight because thats all your going to have</p>

<p>Is he giving it to you for free? I think that it would be fun to take apart and try to fix.</p>

<p>By all means take this camera and send it into nikon and they will repair it for free or maybe charge you 2 or 3 dollars and you will have it back within 2 weeks. This is what we call a miracle camera and it is amost impossible to break or damage. I recently read a post from a guy that was shooting a sporting event he dropped his d90 with a 400 mm lens on it and it bounced off of the ground right back into his hands and he continued shooting. So don't look a gift horse in the mouth.</p>

<p>your best bet is to bury it in the back yard, than spend money trying to fix it. especially if you have a D300 already</p>

<p>An EXPEED processor keychain would be cool.</p>

<p>I like all of your posts but Stanley Spedowski wins the medal for his idea. That's why i love this forum lots of good and funny ideas.<br>

Well I am in N.Y for the weekend and off I go to shoot people and whatnot I will post what I got.<br>

Hopefully Hudson will be graceful enough to spare my gear and me.</p>

<p>During the filming of the movie "Jaws" one of the zillion-dollar Panavision cameras fell into the ocean.<br>

Here is part of the story as told by Mik Cribben from:<br /><a href="http://www.cameraguild.com/interviews/chat_butler/butler_location_jaws.htm">http://www.cameraguild.com/interviews/chat_butler/butler_location_jaws.htm</a><br>

I had gone out to Martha’s Vineyard for a short vacation but when I heard that a feature film called <em>Jaws</em> was being shot I ended up spending most of my time watching the filming.<br>

The timing of my visit to the set of <em>Jaws</em> was quite fortunate. My first trip out to the many boats and barges that made up the set was on the day when they were shooting the most important scene in the picture, the one in which the shark leaps out of the water and crashes down on the back of the boat. The whole afternoon was spent preparing the shot and as it approached 5:30, the end of the day, it looked like they were never going to get the shot off, but just before 5:30 everything came together and Steve Spielberg decided to go for the shot. He called, “Action” and he got a lot more than he called for. Steve, Roy Scheider, Dick Butler (Robert Shaw’s stuntman and no relation to Bill), Bill Butler, three camera crews and three cameras were all aboard the “Orcha II”. When the shark came down on the boat it looked like an explosion and for thirty seconds all hell broke loose. The weight of the shark caused the boat to fill up with too much water and it started to go down like a stone. I saw Roy Scheider dive into a mass of nail-filled pieces of wood splintered from the transom by the shark and did not see him come up for a long time. Other people were jumping clear of the boat and people on other boats were rushing to help them. There was much confusion and people were shouting, “Save the camera!” and “Save the lights!”.<br>

As the boat started to sink it also started to tip over. Some crew members on the work boat, “The Ruddy Duck”, also dove clear of their boat when they saw the 30-foot mast of the “Orcha II” coming down on them like a tall timber. Fortunately the “Orcha II” was attached to a crane on one of the boats, “The Whitefoot”, and this kept the “Orcha II” from sinking or tilting too much. To top it off, a sudden squall came up and it started to storm. After it was all over no one was seriously hurt but the number one camera had been submerged and the magazine with the hard-earned footage was filled with water. Everyone thought the footage was lost and the whole thing would have to be done again, but Bill Butler had the magazine immediately taken to shore and fresh water was exchanged for the brine. The magazine was carried in someone’s lap on the next plane to New York and was processed by Technicolor in New York under the supervision of Otto Paoloni that night. They got the results the next morning. The footage was fine. No second take was made, and that is the footage that the public will see in the film.<br>

Terry Thomas<br />Film Unit Stills Photographer<br />Atlanta, Georgia USA</p>

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<p>WELL...<br>

Nikon Might repair it for free :) IF you're lucky enough.<br>

But if it'll cost less then $800 USDs to fix it, it might be worth it since new kit is about $1100.<br>

Adam</p>

<p>How often do you get a chance to take the camera apart and put it back together again? If unrepairable (or Beyond Economical Repair) I'd use it to extend your knowledge of cameras - I do this with computers ... especially laptops! :-)</p>

<p>TAKE IT APART, TAKE PICTURES, PUT PICTURES ON THE THREAD!!! would love to see what a brother of my D90 looks like from the inside.</p>

<p>None of the suggestions above will hold water.</p>

<p>i like william's idea. and i second sjoerd's suggestion.<br>

then be cool and do what stanley suggested.</p>

<p>I accidently melted my cell phone in the oven trying to dry out the water after a dunking. It ended up on an artist's collage. :)</p>

<p>I think it really does depends on what happens to the camera right after it was submerged. You might be able to save it if it was turned off if you take the battery out and then rinse it in distilled water to get the salt out of the components. And in thereoy if you let it dry then it should work just fine, but something tells me this camera probably won't work =P</p>

<p>I think it really does depends on what happens to the camera right after it was submerged. You might be able to save it if it was turned off if you take the battery out and then rinse it in distilled water to get the salt out of the components. And in thereoy if you let it dry then it should work just fine, but something tells me this camera probably won't work =P</p>

<p>This is a great op, You now can<br>

preform drop tests<br>

see how a Nikon will react when thrown at a brick wall<br>

see what happens when a nikon is run over by a car<br>

bar b que a camera<br>

cut a camera in half to see whats inside<br>

or just take out all the saved up frustration over bad photos and take a hammer to it.</p>