Going to Hawaii
Jan 5, 2022 10:32:53 #
Jan 5, 2022 10:40:57 #
Volcano and southern end and Hilo are the worst, but the windward side of Waimea is pretty high.
Jan 5, 2022 10:47:30 #
It's still planet Earth, nothing extreme. I've been on the Big Island for a total of six weeks with no photographic problems.
Jan 5, 2022 10:59:39 #
jerryc41 wrote:
It's still planet Earth, nothing extreme. I've been on the Big Island for a total of six weeks with no photographic problems.
Not like the camera will turn to dust in three days.......
I wonder how the people who live there cope.
Jan 5, 2022 11:18:23 #
alberio wrote:
Volcano and southern end and Hilo are the worst, but the windward side of Waimea is pretty high.
Thanks
Jan 5, 2022 11:18:44 #
jerryc41 wrote:
It's still planet Earth, nothing extreme. I've been on the Big Island for a total of six weeks with no photographic problems.
Thanks
Jan 5, 2022 16:23:55 #
Longshadow wrote:
Not like the camera will turn to dust in three days.......
I wonder how the people who live there cope.
Not like the camera will turn to dust in three days.......
I wonder how the people who live there cope.
I lived there, thankyou United States Navy! Most of the people did not rely heavily on air-conditioning. Hawaiian electricity is not cheap and the weather is not that hot. Therefore, taking a camera from cold and dry to warm and humid isn't a common practice. Everywhere is warm and humid, inside and out!
If you have to live in ice cold rooms with your camera(s), seal them in a ziplock with some desiccant before you go to hot and humid. Leave them in the bag until they warm up. Once the gear is as warm as the air around them, they won't steam up.
Jan 5, 2022 18:39:43 #
bsprague wrote:
I lived there, thankyou United States Navy! Most... (show quote)
No problem with cold room, was hoping to leave a window open and turn off the air. Thanks for your reply, but I thank you the most for your service.
Jan 5, 2022 21:25:12 #
gcolegate1 wrote:
No problem with cold room, was hoping to leave a window open and turn off the air. Thanks for your reply, but I thank you the most for your service.
Thanking me for my service is not necessary. It is actually embarrassing because, like too many, I was never in harms way. I had fun!
The thanks goes to the taxpayers that paid a (estimated) million to train me, loaned me a nice, comfortable four engine airplane, provided a marvelous 12 man crew, provided (up to) 8000 gallons of fuel for every flight and let us explore Thailand, Okinawa, the Philippines, parts of Japan, Jakarta and even a small town in Iran. Our Navy issue house in Hawaii for two years was on the beach at the entrance to Pearl Harbor.
Although we never had to do it, my crew was trained, practiced and capable of sinking any submarines that misbehaved! While we weren't doing that, we watched the oceans around Vietnam and took pictures of any suspicious looking ships that might be hauling things we didn't want them to haul. We also did a little bit of secret spying, but I can't write about who or what we spied on.
So, again, thanks goes to the taxpayers for funding my adventures.
Jan 6, 2022 07:24:43 #
Been to Hawaii for 2 weeks, but lived in greater Jakarta for 15 years. Heat and humidity are much worse in Jakarta than Hawaii, but they never affected my D40 and D5100.
Jan 6, 2022 07:42:07 #
bsprague wrote:
I lived there, thankyou United States Navy! Most... (show quote)
Ziplock bags are your friend in this case. Fifteen minutes to warm up should be sufficient. The air from the air-conditioned room is pretty dry to begin with, so the dessicant is not very necessary inside the bag. Coming from warm back into the cold dry air is not a problem.
Jan 6, 2022 08:36:58 #
bsprague wrote:
Thanking me for my service is not necessary. It is actually embarrassing because, like too many, I was never in harms way. I had fun!
No need to be embarrassed. You gave up a part of your life to serve our country. Your reason for joining and your experiences while in doesn't change the fact that you did your part in a joint effort where not everyone was face down in the mud. Whatever popular opinion of the war was and is today, or even if it had been peacetime, you did your share. Even the draftees deserve thanks. They went grudgingly for the most part, but, at least they didn't run off to Canada or get some doctor to sign off on bogus bone spurs.
I enlisted in the Army in '67. Of my 3 yrs in I spent 18 mo on the ground in 'Nam, but, that doesn't earn me anymore thanks then you or anyone else who served. We were all part of the same team.
So, Thanks For Your Service!
Jan 6, 2022 09:20:12 #
sb wrote:
Ziplock bags are your friend in this case. Fifteen minutes to warm up should be sufficient. The air from the air-conditioned room is pretty dry to begin with, so the dessicant is not very necessary inside the bag. Coming from warm back into the cold dry air is not a problem.
Thanks
Jan 6, 2022 09:20:36 #
ELNikkor wrote:
Been to Hawaii for 2 weeks, but lived in greater Jakarta for 15 years. Heat and humidity are much worse in Jakarta than Hawaii, but they never affected my D40 and D5100.
Good to know, thanks
Jan 6, 2022 09:32:19 #
I spent three years on Oahu with trips to Hawaii, Maui and Kauai without any ill effects on my Exacta and a couple lenses. However, the Chevy Impala I bought there didn't fair well with the constant stop and go traffic. When I got it back to the States and on the freeways I had to have the engine and tranny rebuilt at about 50K miles.
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