[LargeFormat] Re: The Plague of Fungus

[Jim Brick]

At 06:30 AM 3/23/2002 -0500, John Lakshman wrote:
>How is fungus prevented?  I've heard that the best way is to avoid humid 
>locations
>in storage and to place silica gel or similar moisture absorbent material 
>in the
>gear.  Are there any other ways of ensuring fungus doesn't grow?
>
>Isn't is understood that if fungus hits the camera and the gear its good as
>garbage?  A friend of mine said that its possible to get rid of fungus 
>totally but
>its painstaking and costly.  He said that its done by dismantling a camera and
>gear into their smallest units and removing the fungus from them.  Then 
>they are
>soaked in a tub of fungicide.  Then they are washed in alcohol and then 
>resoaked
>in a new issue of fungicide.  Apparently this process is repeated and 
>repeated ad
>naseum about 9-10 times.  Does it work?
>
>John Lakshman
>Lakshman's Web Photography
>Toronto, Canada


Many photographers in the tropics store their gear in a cabinet that 
contains a low wattage incandescent light, which burns constantly. This 
provides light and heat, which keeps the cabinet dry and abates fungus.

Jim