left M6 out in the rain.......

thats why my other camera is a Canon 1D. When i know i'm going to face downpours etc, i will pick up the weather sealed DSLR.
 
Dry pouches & zip loc bag

Dry pouches & zip loc bag

I can vouch for freshly heated dry pouches (silica gel), i.e. put them in the oven for 2-3 hs at 200F. Then put them together with your M6 into a zip loc bag (or any other sealable bag) and let it sit overnight. Any moisture will be sucked into the drying material and no higher temperatures are needed for the camera itself. Worked perfectly when my MP got a splashing in a waterfall climb:D.
 
I would probably kill myself before the camera dried.

p.s. Leica still has 2 flash sync plugs inside the M6, though 1 is not used. They weren't joking when they said they would keep the traditional design. :) See PaulGuy's photos.
 
ferider said:
Ja, sorry if I came across wrong - it's an awful thing to happen.

But then very likely it won't harm the camera ... sey arre built forr rrain.

Look at it this way: could have been worse, could have been the M3 !

Roland.
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Or an M8 :D
 
I know with it's mechanical parts the M6 is quite a different story, but if it's any comfort to you, I've done something similar in the past. My parents live by the river Thames and once a few years back the banks broke and we got both our back and front garden under about 5 feet of water. The house is risen up so none entered the house. My dad had just bought a new LCD monitor and it was sitting on the floor of his car, which had a dead battery and couldn't be moved. So, the monitor sat under water for about two weeks. River water. Muddy river water.

When it cleared we took the monitor out, and I wouldn't let him throw it away, since it had been expensive! I put it in the cupboard with the boiler (where it tends to be quite warm) and forgot about it for about two months. When I discovered it again and decided to try it out, it worked fine! I had to clean it up a bit, but it's still working to this day!

Don't lose hope! Your M6 could still be fine, just like the day you bought it!

I also shoot with my M6 out in the rain quite often, and it's been totally drenched on more than one occasion!
 
Awful story. I sincerely hope your M6 will be fine.

Reminds me when two friends and I left our three photo bagpacks full with expensive equipment in front of our tents over night during a rainy period in Southern France, where we were hunting vultures (with cameras, of course). Maybe we had a bottle of red wine too much in the evening ... We were extremely lucky: no rain and no thieves during the night.
 
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I left an OM-1n and an SP35 outside a couple of weeks ago. Happily, my dear wife brought them in ... after she guided me to bed due to my state of "happiness".

Along with everyone else I'm hoping/trusting that all will be fine. Perhaps Mrs. Dadsm3 could be employed to check up on her oldest child in the future? :rolleyes:
 
Icebear,

May years ago I bought a full-sized metal container that is full of silica gel. It must be 20 inches high. I heat it up in the oven for three hours to recativate the silca gel. It works great to remove any excess humidity.

Raid
 
She's back, and she's just fine......no moisture anyplace important. There was just a bit of water inside the baseplate because it was in it's case at the time and the case filled up with a 1/2" of rainwater. It was quite the deluge...
Roger at Camtech in Hamilton told me speeds and viewfinder are perfect; $60CDN for the minor CLA. The best advice I got here was to take it in, get it disassembled and make sure it was fully dry before re-assembly. The Luigi's case also looks just fine, maybe a bit snug now.
Like Roger said; "after all, it IS a Leica!"
 
dadsm3 said:
She's back, and she's just fine......no moisture anyplace important. There was just a bit of water inside the baseplate because it was in it's case at the time and the case filled up with a 1/2" of rainwater. It was quite the deluge...
Roger at Camtech in Hamilton told me speeds and viewfinder are perfect; $60CDN for the minor CLA. The best advice I got here was to take it in, get it disassembled and make sure it was fully dry before re-assembly. The Luigi's case also looks just fine, maybe a bit snug now.
Like Roger said; "after all, it IS a Leica!"
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good news! we can all exhale now!
 
Not that I want to do the same to mine, but I am glad to hear all is well in the event that I do.
 
Yes, really glad to hear it's okay!

xayraa33 said:
glad to hear the camera is ok.
no MacArthur Park jokes as of yet :)
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Funny, as soon as I saw the title I thought 'and he'll never have that recipe again'

Gene
 
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