Gadgets and Water Don't mix

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I came home last night and learned my 21-month old daughter Megan had decided to take our Canon Powershot G5 digital camera off the kitchen table and plop it into the dogs' water bowl. My wife scrambled to remove it quickly, but the viewfinder is now all fogged up and it won't turn on. Maybe it will dry out, who knows?

I joked with my wife that surely Megan didn't get her "gadget destroying genes" from a gadget lover like me. Then again, my background is in engineering and engineers like to see how things work, and they love to stress test something to the max, etc. So perhaps the little engineer in her was simply stress testing my digital camera. Well, Megan, it failed - it failed miserably.

Ah well - it was time for a digital camera upgrade anyway.
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If the water got in there in the first place, hypothetically it should eventually evaporate, but if you can't do without a camera you might need to get something else in the meantime. Have you tried opening it up? I had a Canon before that needed repair and it wasn't too tricky to disassemble, and if you're going to chuck it out anyhow, you have nothing to lose.

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