OnDSnap wrote:
So what your saying, I'm riding in my Heated vehicle in Winter, I see something I want to photograph, I pull over put my cameras and lenses into bags, get out of my toasty truck, let everything acclimate, then open the bags and snap snap...put the camera and lenses back into the bags and get back into my truck, allow to acclimate before removing, then a block away I see something new, I go through it all over again...yeah right. Ya think a decent Styrofoam cooler would work, I know it does. I wonder what photographers due when photographing the summits or the pole areas. Seriously???
So what your saying, I'm riding in my Heated vehic... (
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The only problem is taking a colder camera into a warm, humid environment. Going from a warm car into the cold is not a problem. And in reality, the warm air in your car or house in the winter is heated very dry air, and so this is not too much of a problem. Even right this moment here in Florida where it is a "cold" 50 degrees outside, the humidity inside my home is only 31% In the "real" winter areas, the warm air in your house is going to be very dry unless you have a lot of humidification going on. As for those at summits or poles - they do not have the luxury of going in and out of heated environments!
The biggest problem is in the tropics - going from an air-conditioned building out into hot, humid air just saturated with water waiting to condense on/in your equipment!
But remember trying to photograph in the bitter cold with film? I had many a photo ruined by lightning-streaks caused by static inside the camera, and a few times it was so cold I could hardly get the tops off of the plastic film canisters.