wainism said:Hi just wondering if a dry box is good enought for me.
I m planning to buy a Canon A80. So for just a compact cam,i think its pretty much an overkill if i get a dry cabi?
hedefalk said:Hi!
I'm an exchange student from Sweden and I just arrived to Singapore a month ago. I'm really new to this climate and have a bit of wondering about those dry-boxes and cabinets. In Sweden I've never even heard about them. I have about 20 cameras and about 30 lenses, some from early 50s (Rolleicord and stuff) and have never had any fungus. But I guess these have spent all their life in northern Europe where the climate is very much colder and dryer. I only brought an old Minolta 9000 with a single zoom-lens and this one I don't have that much caring feelings for. But I'm thinking about buying the new Minolta Dynax 7D when it comes and I also bought a compact digicam. I'm only staying 'til late April though and will be travelling a lot anyway so do you think it is worth considering one of those?
wainism said:Hi just wondering if a dry box is good enought for me.
I m planning to buy a Canon A80. So for just a compact cam,i think its pretty much an overkill if i get a dry cabi?
mervlam said:Hmmm.... If you use your camera almost every other day, I guess there isn't a need to get one. Fungus can grow on lenses and cameras within a month if you don't store them in a dry box or cabinet due to our humid weather.
P.S. - Are you on exchange with NTU or NUS?
RonTheMan said:Use to keep my slr in a cupboard. After a year or 2, found fungus growing. After that got myself a device that looks like a flourescent light (forgot the name). But what you do with it is to install it into any cupoard and just plug in the mains.
So now I store my cameras, cds, dvds into the cupboard and for the past 10 years or so, no fungus. Pretty useful stuff. Last I saw this device was at Tangs on the very top floor.