Re: Digital cameras in the Sun (was I have a favor to ask.)

[Hans Klemmer <hansklemmer@xxxxxxx>]

For whatever it is worth, several years ago (in my former guise as a firefighter/paramedic) found that my Nikon Coolpix 990 would operate for quite a while inside of houses that we were using for training burns. At floor level it would have been at least 135-150 degrees and the camera would operate at those temps for about 5-10 minutes before it would shut itself off. There didn't seem to be any lasting damage to the camera and the photographs downloaded just fine from the CF card without much obvious digital noise in the resulting images. 

However, like they say on Mythbusters "Don't try this at home kids".

Hans

On Jul 18, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Bob wrote:

I don't have any plans to find out if that is true...... 

On second thought, I do have an old Canon A40 that I may keep in the shade and let it warm up and see what the images look like.  And I wonder if it is the camera or the media that gets noisier.

Bob

PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx wrote:

In a message dated 7/17/2008 9:04:01 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, w8imo@xxxxxxxx writes:

Almost 90F is just too hot in the sun!

I heard that digital cameras produce more noise if they get hot.

 

Roy

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