Soaking dripping wet!!

You are comin home from a long twelve hour walk in the mountains

For the better part of the trip approx 6 hrs, its nice and shiny weather and lots of photo opportunities, many patches of spring flowers to be captured

So it starts to rain, then it pours down

You have forgotten the d750 pouch so you put it naked in your Osprey Talon backpack

After four hours walking in the rain you eventually arrives home, not only you, the dog also the camera is soaking, dripping wet!!

What do you do?
-- put it in the micro owen
-- use a broom
-- use your ladies hair drier
-- put it in the freezer
-- let it just rest on the table and eventually get dry

In short .--- fast and quick drying or a slow tedious wipe down with linen cloths?

1. Remove the battery from the camera

2. Wipe it down as well as possible

3. Place camera in a container of raw rice or in a container of desiccant pouches

Exactly what Brent said!

I would NOT put the camera in the freezer, use a hair dryer, out it in a microwave oven. You want to pull the moisture out of the unit, if it got into the internals.


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You do NOT turn the camera on. Doing so while wet could *cause* damage.

Remove the battery and SD cards. Leave the battery door and card slot door open and let everything air dry for a couple days.

A friend of mine went for a dip while we were out shooting the Cahaba Lilies in the Cahaba River recently. so his $3,000 body and $2,000 lens both quit working Took out the batteries and placed it in a container with desiccant packs for a few days and it dried out and works like the new camera that it really is.

Put Ziploc freezer bags in all packs. Now. Proceed as indicated above. Pray.

Sorry to hear this. I read somewhere recently that rice isn't such a great idea, but the silica packs should work well. If you've ever seen dry rice, it leaves a slight powdery residue inside the box. Wouldn't be my choice anyway. Good luck!

As others have advised, take the battery and the card out. Take the lens off. Wipe the water off the camera, lens and the contacts and let the camera and the lens dry naturally in a well ventilated space for a couple of days. Accelerated drying may not remove all the moisture which will later cause problems.