Insect invasion
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
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
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
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
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
So weatherproof, but not insect proof?
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.
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.
ROFL ! Hope you manage to get the little blighters out Ken
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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
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
This problem seems to be much more common than I thought
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
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It is mildly amusing but quite distracting to watch a mad game of space invaders on the focussing screen.
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -