Hi, I am an art student in Florida, and one of my projects was to build a boat and race in it. I figured this would be a great photo-op with my friends. I took lots of great pictures with my digital camera, an Casio Exilim 7.2 mega pixel. Unfortunately I was stupid and didnt remember to take the camera, along with my cell phone, out of my pocket during the race. My boat sadly cap-sized and i was forced to swim back to shore. So my phone and my camera were exposed to salt water for no more than five minutes with the battery in. I took apart the camera, exposed the circuits to air, but before i go through the effort of cleaning I am curious about the capacitor for the flash.
Is it possible that even after removing the battery, the charge in the capacitor continued to fry the circuits? Is it worth a try to clean them or am I SOL?
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Hi, I am an art student in Florida, and one of my projects was to build a boat and race in it. I figured this would be a great photo-op with my friends. I took lots of great pictures with my digital camera, an Casio Exilim 7.2 mega pixel. Unfortunately I was stupid and didnt remember to take the camera, along with my cell phone, out of my pocket during the race. My boat sadly cap-sized and i was forced to swim back to shore. So my phone and my camera were exposed to salt water for no more than five minutes with the battery in. I took apart the camera, exposed the circuits to air, but before i go through the effort of cleaning I am curious about the capacitor for the flash.
Is it possible that even after removing the battery, the charge in the capacitor continued to fry the circuits? Is it worth a try to clean them or am I SOL?