A well insulated camera bag prevents my stuff from
warming up too fast or cooling down to quickly. Keep
the bag in a shaded cooler area at all times though
and away from really hot or cold things. Of course I
never took my cameras to far below zero temps. The
coldest my cameras have ever gotten with me is the low
teens. OM-1's are designed for this sort of thing
though, very little in the way of exposed parts and
well sealed electronics. A wonderbrick wouldn't last
10 minutes the power would drop too low and hang the
camera.
Mark Lloyd
--- Andrew Dacey <frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/11/01 8:59 PM, "Mike"
> <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I've heard of problems of condensation when going
> from warm to cold and
> > back. Expansion and contraction may also be a
> problem at those extreme
> > temperature swings.
>
> What I did when I was in Russia (St. Petersburg)
> with a camera from a
> different manufacturer (horrors! Well I was young
> and foolish) was always
> carry a ziploc bag with me to put the camera and
> lens in before going
> inside. A few times I believe I forgot but I would
> just leave the camera in
> the camera bag (a lowe pro photo runner) which
> seemed to be sufficiently
> water tight to prevent condensation problems. But
> things are probably worse
> around Antarctica so that might not work well
> enough. What I did find also
> was that the camera bag's padding did act as
> insulation which would
> drastically slow the warming up of the camera (which
> may be important for
> the temperature swings). Of course, if you're going
> to rely on the bag's
> water tightness to protect from condensation, you'd
> better make sure to let
> the camera warm up enough before you take it out of
> the bag!
>
> --
> Andrew "Frugal" Dacey
> frugal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.tildefrugal.net/
>
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