Heat and our cameras
Sep 6, 2017 10:19:15 #
Going on a 4 day camping/fishing/and maybe shooting some.......
I'm concerned about keeping my camera locked up in the truck while I'm on the river fishing as the heat would not be good. How do you hogs keep your camera safe during something like this. I'm using a tent and don't have another place to lock the camera up safe. I'm not sure about taking it with me as it may get dunked while in the kayak. I do have a dry bag. But I have never taken a camera out on the water.
Some feedback would be nice:-)
I'm concerned about keeping my camera locked up in the truck while I'm on the river fishing as the heat would not be good. How do you hogs keep your camera safe during something like this. I'm using a tent and don't have another place to lock the camera up safe. I'm not sure about taking it with me as it may get dunked while in the kayak. I do have a dry bag. But I have never taken a camera out on the water.
Some feedback would be nice:-)
Sep 6, 2017 10:30:52 #
Unless you are laying your camera in the direct sun or sitting it in the sun inside the car, your camera will be fine. I do a lot of shooting of reptiles in the desert and never have any issues.
Sep 6, 2017 10:44:40 #
AllenDpics wrote:
Going on a 4 day camping/fishing/and maybe shootin... (show quote)
Consider using an insulated bag to keep the camera and lenses in.
Sep 6, 2017 10:58:18 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
Consider using an insulated bag to keep the camera and lenses in.
Sep 6, 2017 11:04:32 #
I leave my camera on the back seat floor of my truck, covered with a jacket or something similar. Where I fish it is in the mountains so is normally fairly cool compared to the lower areas.
Dennis
Dennis
Sep 6, 2017 11:22:50 #
Sep 6, 2017 11:26:17 #
For years, dating back to my use of film, I've had a small cooler with "blue ice" in my car; camera can stay for hours there and not get very warm
Sep 6, 2017 13:00:12 #
rehess wrote:
For years, dating back to my use of film, I've had a small cooler with "blue ice" in my car; camera can stay for hours there and not get very warm
Great idea. I have done that too on occasion.
Dennis
Sep 6, 2017 13:28:00 #
My camera is in the hot car in Florida all the time - no ill effect. When leaving your gear in the car, heat isn't the biggest issue, theft is. Keep it out of sight.
Sep 6, 2017 13:48:26 #
Keep it in a cool box in the trunk out of sight. ____do not add a freezer block to 'cool' it or when you come to use it..it will fog up.
In the UK you can just leave it on the back seat covered with a jacket. We dont generally get too hot.
Theft is a whole different ball game...
In the UK you can just leave it on the back seat covered with a jacket. We dont generally get too hot.
Theft is a whole different ball game...
Sep 6, 2017 14:34:00 #
Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I think I will put it in a cool bag without any ice block and lock it up. The weather for the next few days will not get into the 80s.
Where I'm going has pretty much been deserted from crowds because of school starting up.
Where I'm going has pretty much been deserted from crowds because of school starting up.
Sep 6, 2017 14:52:13 #
Your camera and most all of your photo accessories have almost certainly spent weeks in high temperature before you ever bought them. At the factory in some far off country they are loaded into un-ventilated steel shipping containers that then sit for days, sometimes weeks, in container yards, in the sun, awaiting loading aboard a container ship where it will spend a week or more at sea, possibly in direct sun, before sitting in another container yard. It then gets placed on a truck or train for however long before reaching it's destination. Again, in direct sun. Those containers get extremely hot. I wouldn't worry about temps in your car. Just keep it out of direct sun.
Sep 6, 2017 15:33:48 #
AllenDpics wrote:
Going on a 4 day camping/fishing/and maybe shootin... (show quote)
A couple of weeks ago, while at a ballgame, my 24-year-old car was stolen. Local police found it within 24 hours. A retired "repo man" (friend) took me over to the towing yard to get it, and it was is only used as a taxi (no damage), but it was all but empty. When I asked "repo man", the police officer, and the towing company owner, how the thieves got into a locked car and drove away without damaging it, they replied "slim jim and a shaved key" (all quite simple for the experienced thief).
So...why didn't they get my camera?
Because it was in my personal possession.
Sep 6, 2017 15:41:53 #
le boecere wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, while at a ballgame, my 24-... (show quote)
But were you in a kayak at the time it was in your personal possession? That is the reason he wanted to leave it in the car as I recall.
Dennis
Sep 6, 2017 16:42:32 #
le boecere wrote:
A couple of weeks ago, while at a ballgame, my 24-... (show quote)
You sound somewhat superior in your tone here and I don't think your reply adds much to the conversation. Most of us know that keeping a camera in our car is fool-hardy and I'd bet that most of us don't do it unless we really must. When I travel I take all of my gear into my motel every night and pack it out each day, it always goes where I go but there are still times when I cannot take it all with me. And, that is why I have zero deductible insurance on my camera gear, right down to each SD card and every little piece of equipment I may have purchased through the years. Sometimes, we cannot take it all with us, except, I guess, for you.
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