Going to Singapore for a week - Corrosion concerns

[JFG]

Hey everyone, 

Next Tuesday 8-3-24 I'll be flying to Singapore for a week and  hopefully I'll get some good photos. However with the humidity being 80% plus and prospects of rain 🌧..  I decided to take my M50 Mark II, EF-M 15-45mm and EF-M 50-200mm lenses along with a few bags of silica gel in my camera bag 😆   After reading Trevor's answers to a post on, "in camera corrosion" it made me think twice 🤔   

Thanks Trevor  ! 😊 

[jrhoffman75 · Accepted solution]

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@JFG wrote:

Hey everyone, 

Next Tuesday 8-3-24 I'll be flying to Singapore for a week and  hopefully I'll get some good photos. However with the humidity being 80% plus and prospects of rain 🌧..  I decided to take my M50 Mark II, EF-M 15-45mm and EF-M 50-200mm lenses along with a few bags of silica gel in my camera bag 😆   After reading Trevor's answers to a post on, "in camera corrosion" it made me think twice 🤔   

Thanks Trevor  ! 😊 

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Biggest issue in a high humidity environment is going out of air conditioned buildings. If you are in a 70 degree building and walk outside to a warm humid environment you will get condensation forming on (and in) your gear.

If you can't avoid the transition it is best to keep the camera in a ziplock type bag till it warms up.

[JFG]

Hi John, 

I have been to Singapore multiple times and have visited Kampong Glam, Little India, Katong not to mention Boat Quay and other tourist spots.  We were there last year in April and stayed at the Swisotel The Stamford on the 71st floor, across from the Sands Skypark, the Merlion, with great views of Singapore Bay, fom our balcony, what  views!  Thats  where I experienced condensation on my R6 M2, RF 24-105mm lens.  Like Trevor mentioned, coming out of an air condition room to the hot humidity of Singapore will cause the lense to fog up in a flash.  This time going in August, which is Singapore's raniest month of the year and higher than normal humidity is what I was concerned with.  However, looking at the weather it seems that it will rain on Tuesday,  Wednesday,  Thursday at night with cloudy overcast and some showers in the day.  So, I just have to take care that I don't get rained on. 😀  Also we will be goung to Santosa island and just going around.  I'm bringing my compact Canon M50 M2 with two lenses as it is lighter, easier to pack and carry.  I will shoot in raw and although its a cropped sensor it takes great pictures 👍  Great little  canon camera !  

[John_SD]

Never had a problem there with a lens fogging up there. Perhaps because I haven't had a need to immediately shoot when I step outside. YMMV.

[JFG]

Yeah, it probably was because the temperature in my room was set so low that when I stepped out onto the balcony, the humidity and temperature change was so much that it caused the condensation.   I wanted to take pics of the fantastic views from my room's balcony.  😀  I should have known better as I've traveled throughout south east asia and know how humid it can get.  In any case I just need to use some common sense.  This year I also plan to visit Australia in November and in December plan to visit Luxembourg, if all goes well and there are no last minute hiccups.  We were supposed to go to Poland in September then we  were going to take a quick hop to Barcelona, but that was scrubbed. Hopefully, I'll be taking my R52, like Rick calls it, in November! 🙂