My Olympus Stylus Tough 6020 camera is gone for repairs. Its cheaper than buying a new camera. In the meantime, I've been using a Nikon Coolpix to capture images of my kayak adventures. I take lots because when the lens cover gets wet, the resulting pictures look smudged.
I googled the problem. The answer is spit. Thursday evening, while Dean was doing a backdeck scramble on recovery, I tested it.
The picture taking procedure now goes: take camera out of PFD pocket, turn on, lick, immerse in water and shoot. Its quite an involved procedure but appears to work fine.
The spit keeps a film of water on the lens cover which then becomes part of the optics.
I was happy to see the results when I downloaded the shots from the evening. I'll still takes lots of shots to make sure I have some keepers, like this unaltered shot as the sun was going down. Unusual colours but sharp in any case.
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