A very odd thing happened...

[Alex]

(cue the twilight zone music) I left my super-8 camera on my all metal tripod complete with it's all metal adapter plate, the camera switch was in the off position. After about two weeks time I noticed a trail of battery corrosion going from the outside of the camera and growing alongside the bottom of the plastic camera handle.

There was only a very light amount of corrison on the inside of the camera handle where the batteries reside. Probably around 95% of the corrosion was completely on the outside of the camera.

(fade out the twilight zone music before I am assessed a charge for prompting people to think of the music and hear it in their mind without paying for it.) [img]graemlins/shhh.gif[/img]

[megalith6]

ufo's or no - i would change those batteries instantly!

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R

[Alex]

Yeah, I took the batteries out. I normally have access to tripods that have plastic interfaces. This was the first time I have ever left one on a tripod with a metal interface. The bottom of the camera has that metal screw mount, so I guess there is some kind of metal circuit going from the inside where the batteries were to the outside where metal was.

I never have seen that before.

The irony is I think the batteries are still fine. (cue that twilight zone music)