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Hi Baz,
Glad to see the Camera appears to have survived. I think the critical thing in your favour is the fact the water was "fresh" water. Salt water would have munted it in very short order. I agree with Gary, while everything "appears" ok spend a few $$$ and get it checked by the experts, it's not a cheap camera. There could still be some water in there which will "run" when you put the camera on a different angle and you are back to square one.
I had a situation about 10 years ago when a high pressure cold water pipe burst in the ceiling of our office and absolutely "drowned" the Canon Copier/Printer/Fax sitting underneath it. When the ceiling tiles caved in above the machine and 100 plus liters of water drowned it, I instinctively, cut the power to the machine ASAP. The machine got absolutely saturated. We pulled all the user serviceable parts out of the machine (cartridges and paper cassettes etc) so that it could start drying out. We jury rigged another printer and used the old fax machine as the fax and photocopier for about 2 weeks until the machine dried out some. I held absolutely zero hope for the machine to ever work again and it was a $20K machine. I thought it can't hurt to leave it dry for a couple of weeks and then spend the money on a service call before we trash a $20,000 machine and buy a new one. The service guy came in, pulled it apart into 1,000 pieces. Replaced a couple of parts, powered the machine up and away it went. It cost me less than $500 to get it going again and it worked fine for another 4 years until we upgraded to a colour Zerox multifunction machine. I still to this day cannot believe that the machine ever worked again. It had water in just about every orifice.
Cheers,
John B
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