Water damage due to flood / Canon 6D

[DianaReich]

We had a flood in our house and my camera bag with my camera and a few lenses was submerged for 8 hours.  There was not a lens attached.  Is it possible to repair the camera with water inside? and the lens?

[stevet1 · Accepted solution]

Diana,

I'm sorry. But from everything I've read, I don't think so. There's sensitive electronics involved.

Steve Thomas

[DianaReich]

Where did you find any sort of information about situations like mine?  Did you read on a specific site?   I have a bad feeling it's not repairable.  

[kvbarkley]

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2020/08/the-fujifilm-gfx-100-vs-salt-water-teardown/

https://community.usa.canon.com/t5/EOS-DSLR-Mirrorless-Cameras/Would-you-especially-like-to-see-what...

Note that these examples had lenses!

While not salt water, flood water has a lot of nasty stuff including gypsum from the drywall.

[kvbarkley]

No. It is dead. It can no longer be trusted. I have had cameras just splashed that died.

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

Sorry Diana.  You'll need to include this as personal property under homeowners or renters insurance.  Time for mirrorless and new camera / lens day.  

[Tronhard]

Hi Diana and welcome to the forum:
I am really sorry to learn that you have been the victim of a flood.  Sadly, I would consider them all write-offs.  Water in a camera starts a corrosion process that is very difficult to stop. Flood water, as my colleague said, contains all sorts of pollutants that go to work immediately.  Lenses, once water is inside, will develop fungus and that is also a write-off state.  To be honest, I would suspect that no reputable service centre would touch them.
If you have insurance, then make a claim and get new gear.  If you want advice on getting new gear, come back to us and create a post with your budget and needs, we'd be happy to help any way we can.

[Guystapo]

OMG I just posted a few min ago about the same thing ..I guess I will throw it all away ..dang it. Money is tight I guess I will look for something used ..Thanks 

[wq9nsc]

Attempts to repair water damaged electronics only makes sense if the item is both extremely rare and extremely expensive and even then the success rate is low.  IF the item wasn't removed immediately from water and thoroughly flushed with distilled water then the chances of success are near zero.

For a camera, the risk/return tradeoff is highly negative.  Even if a repair resulted in initial function it is highly likely that the unit will still fail very quickly thereafter from effects due to corrosion and contamination.

I have repaired a few electronic items that were exposed to water.  In all cases, with both salt and fresh (although flood water is never truly fresh), exposure was brief and remediation was immediate.  Even with an extremely expensive piece of gear, I wouldn't bother trying a repair if water exposure had been for an hour or more.

Rodger