Insect invasion

Does anyone have any ideas, short of phoning Rentokil, for removing the insects that have set up home in my k20d.

It is mildly amusing but quite distracting to watch a mad game of space invaders on the focussing screen.

LOL weird. My first thought was bug bomb, a few suggestions here

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You need to tempt them out. Dead bodies in the camera would be an issue.

That's strange, I've heard they can get in your PC screen too!

John

Ho ho ho!

They don't move quite that fast and seem to have horns, they also come in daddy, mummy and baby sizes. I'm not making this up

Some interesting comments there, the temperature here is 32C so perhaps the unusual, for them, environment has brought them out of hibernation. I think I'll try freezing them when home

I had some mini creatures in my ME some time ago. They went of their own accord eventually. I also had a grasshopper jump in too while changing lenses. That's taking macro photography to the extreme!

Freezing the camera may just do the trick (but could it get damaged doing that?) If it proves successful you might still have to do it several times to break the life cycle of whatever it is.

John

Show them some Canon camera, they may choose "better" home .
So weatherproof, but not insect proof?

Airtight box with nail varnish remover on tissue in small glass container

I'd try two things..
use your rocket blower to suck them up..
or set your camera sans lens into an airtight container with a lightsource and perhaps some fly paper to lure them out and trap them.

ROFL ! Hope you manage to get the little blighters out Ken

I had a similar problems the Highlands two weeks ago. I was helping a friend with some filming for his research. We were in Glen Nevis when the hordes of bity things descended

We had to rush the work and head out fast. Our combination of bog mytrle, DEET and skin so soft hardly kept the evil ones from biting.

An hour later we were filming again in Glencoe when my friend complained of midges on the lens of his camera. I said get on with the job - its time for tea. He carried on moaning about the midges and I realised that there were none flying around. Yes the little horrors had get inside the video camera lens system Well MR Grumpy was very Grumpy all night. No more research filming/time wasted/have to return home you can imagine the situation.Only beer saved the night.

The next morning no midges on the lens! Missing presumed deceased! I still can't work out how they got behind the fromt element of the lens. Fotunatelt it was notmy camera

Many many moons ago I had some tiny critters walking around in the viewfinder of my SLR film camera of the time -a Zenith or a Fuji can't remember which - think I remember reading somewhere to put the camera in the gas oven (just gas - not lit) for a (very)short while. I tried different solutions but that was the only one that worked. This solution not recommended for smokers!!!

I knew midges were evil but not quite that evil!

This problem seems to be much more common than I thought