Ants nesting in my 5D!

[traingineer]

Imagine someone turning this into a movie. ;D

It's been done before....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a13-JbxC98#aid=P-iEEpL2oE0

The old lady just needs to be replaced with Stephen's 5D. :3

 

[StephenC]

Don't be ridiculous. I'm not talking about eating them. Besides, I'm allergic to iguana!

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi John.
I know they're a bit bigger, but all my cars have a resident engineer, (aka spider) never remove the engineer, not only might the item break, but flies will survive!

Cheers Graham.

I had a tiny spider in the viewfinder of my 1D4 - it was quite fun watching him wander about from time to time then he stopped coming back. I do wonder if the sensor cleaner got it or perhaps he migrated to a Nikon, I miss the little fella!

 

[Hannes]

Hi John.
I know they're a bit bigger, but all my cars have a resident engineer, (aka spider) never remove the engineer, not only might the item break, but flies will survive!

Cheers Graham.

I had a tiny spider in the viewfinder of my 1D4 - it was quite fun watching him wander about from time to time then he stopped coming back. I do wonder if the sensor cleaner got it or perhaps he migrated to a Nikon, I miss the little fella!

Every car I've ever had seems to have attracted a spider which lived in a mirror

 

[AcutancePhotography]

Any idea how they got in there in the first place???

I have had a few cameras and some of them have been on a shelf for 10+ years, but I never had ants. Yikes

I guess this tells us a little about any weather sealing on the 5D.

 

[StephenC]

No idea. We have a lot of ants around here, I live in a bush area. I'm diabetic so used to carry a muesli bar in my bag so maybe that attracted them. It was sealed in it's packet though and I have never had ants around any of the other snacks I have secreted around the place.

I think I have evicted most of them as I haven't spotted any for a while now - I sat with my wife's point and shoot to get the video craved by earlier posters and failed to see any.

Given that I only ever saw them externally on the camera or in the viewfinder I guess it does speak well for the weather sealing. No ants ever made it into the main part of the camera despite nesting next door.