OK I thought I had done it. I accidentally washed one of my 128meg memory sticks after leaving it in my pants pocket. I went to empty the washer and there at the bottom, low and behold, a dripping wet memeory stick. I was rather angry with myself to say the least. The expletives were a flyin'! I put it in my desk above my computer (warmest place in the house out of the sunlight) to dry out. That was Monday. I just put it in my card reader and it worked! The formating was still there and all! The stick is actually an after market by LEXAR but the fact is it works! I am truely amazed. Lets see someone do THAT with film! Magick Michael

Holy Sh*t! I'm shocked and amazed.....you are one lucky dude!

LOL! That's the most inventive way of getting the dust of your photos! ;)

Man you are lucky! When I read "washed one of my" I was thinking ok you erased your card by mistake, and lost your photos. I got a kick out of finding it in the washing machine, sounds like something I would do. Glad everything came out ok in the wash.

Lucky? LUCKY?!? You're forced to do the woman's work and you think you're lucky?!? Man, in our house I'm the boss, and I've even got her permission to say so! (",)

I thought one could drop film into the water and rescue it? As long as the film emulsion doesent get damaged. After all it get wet during processing. I wouldn't think about soaking it in the lab sink though. Bsteph

oh one can do plenty of junk to film. one of my teachers had a good 80 sheets of film damaged during a flood at school centrally located in his office (half the second floor was later rebuilt, and what he was thinking leaving 80 sheets of film containing exposures some 20 years old in his school office, no one will ever know). Either way, many were damaged beyond repair (this happened over the weekend, and he didnt find out til the monday), many survived, and only needed a wash. Now, if you left that card stick in a puddle of water for 2 days, you might not be so lucky... once washed a zipdisk, but didn't have the courage to see if it worked, risking my zip drive to do so. You got cahunas mah friend.

I've seen Expensive electronic equipment litterly squirted with water. A couple of alsonol washes to attempt to rinse off the water and some air drying...spparent the instrument works fine. I think what would really have done it would have been short circuits. BUT he dried it off before using so... Bsteph

Yea...as long as you don't power it up before it dries out, there really shouldn't be any problem. Unless, of course, it gets dunked in a liquid that can cause corrosion (salt water). Even then, if you can rinse it in clean water before corrosion sets in and dry it completely, most electronics will still work. Most water damage is either caused by corrosion or by short circuit that occurs when the liquid gives the current a path it shouldn't have gone. Water is a nice conductor (not the water, actually, the minerals in the water). -=>Donald

I always wash my films :) But yes, you are really lucky. enax