Re: paleonet Digital Cameras for Field?

[Dee Ann Cooper <deeanncooper@xxxxxxxxx>]

we have had great success with a Nikon as well ... in
the Chihuahua Desert.  

--- deb@aber.ac.uk wrote:

> You could try using a plastic bag with a zip
> closure.
> Get a UV lens filter, and cut a suitable hole in the
> bag, and cement or
> glue the filter to it.
> I have a Canon G5 camera, which has an attachment
> which will has a 58mm
> thread on it.
> Denis Bates
> > I've started to use a digital camera in the field
> for sed and fossil
> > pictures, but have discovered that the lens
> apparatus doesn't hold up as
> > well in the
> > dusty, windy, Peruvian desert as my 25-year-old
> Pentax K1000.
> >
> > Underwater cases exist for some digital cameras,
> but at $250, they cost
> > almost twice as much as the 4-megapixel camera
> itself.
> >
> > Has anyone on paleonet invented or discovered a
> good work-around that
> > allows
> > a digital camera to be used in the field without
> getting the electronics
> > or
> > lens mechanism ruined by airborne dust?
> >
> > Tom DeVries
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 


Dee Ann Cooper, BS, MS, PG
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