Create Your Own Dry Box Camera

The solution to avoid the fungus due to changes in the humidity surrounding the area is uncertain, you can use the Dry Box. Having a Dry Box is not a wish, if the photography equipment is enough, the law becomes mandatory. Not that having only one camera just does not need Dry Box, you have to have it too. What does it do?

Dry Box helps you avoid mushrooms generated from room moisture, if the camera is contaminated with fungi, especially the optical lens area or sensor, this problem becomes very large and difficult to overcome, or must redeem the repair at a price that is not cheap.

Dry Boxes sold on the market ranging from cheap to expensive. The cheap ones have a small liter capacity, so it only fit 1 camera body, 1 lens, and some other accessories. If it is expensive, it certainly has a large capacity, and has adjustable temperature and humidity settings.

A. What You Should Prepare To Create Your Own Dry Box Camera With Low Budget

What are the requirements to make Dry Box?

1. Airtight case with lid with rubber sealed so that the air is not easy to enter into the box capacity of 19 liters,

2. Digital Hygrometer to measure humidity and temperature

3. Here you can use Silica Gel to absorb air, or in the form of Silica Gel which is electric, or use Excellent Brand Water Serap. I recommend Excellent Brand Water Serap, because of its practicality, and available refills, and make your photo equipment also fragrant and fragrant.

4. Use the base on the Dry Box, ie with Bubble Wrap. Bubble Wrap is used as a camera base in the Dry Box, protecting it from falling directly on the floor if you accidentally put the Dry Box on the floor not slowly. You can also use foam or styrofoam.

B. How to Assemble?
It's easy to assemble this Dry Box, the steps are as follows :
The first step
Put the Dry Box first with Bubble Wrap, foam or Styrofoam. Then place one by one Silica Gel or absorb water into the Dry Box, and place also Hygrometer. Then close the Dry Box, and wait until the humidity in the hygrometer shows the 40% - 55% range. Ideal moisture in Dry Box with range 40% - 65%.
Step Two
Once the hygrometer shows the ideal humidity, insert your main photographic equipment into the Dry Box. Insert the camera body, lens, to avoid frequent moisture changes, as the weather changes. Up here finished assembling Dry Box, and it is important also that in the early - early often check the moisture contained in the Dry Box.

C. What You Should Know

• Try not to dry Dry Box too long, give fresh air as air change in Dry Box, at least once a month Dry Box opened for air change inside Dry Box, then close again meetings.
• If it's time to replace the new Silica Gel, you must do so that the moisture is maintained in the Dry Box. Usually when using water absorption, water recharge will be full dipenampungan, and the time immediately replaced.
• If the water in the humidity reservoir is full, it is time to dispose of the water, and replace the silica gel with the new one.
• Before entering your photographic equipment after photographing activities, clean your camera and lens first with a microfiber cloth, to keep the camera clean, the lens in the Dry Box is maintained. Clean off the dust, sweat marks, and so on that are left in the camera body and lens.