Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> lenses in the car overnight. As the temperature dropped into the high 20"s > the equipment was quite cold in the morning. I placed the camera and each > lens into a plastic freezer bag and brought everything into the > house. Condensation did occur on the bag and not on the equipment. > Everything seems to be in fine working order. > > Has anyone else on the list had a similar experience? Did I do the > right thing? Should anything else be done? > You did exactly the right thing if the bags were fully sealed, like Zip-Lock brand bags do. As the equipment warms up the relative humidity inside the plastic bags goes down and there will be absolutely no condensation on the internal camera parts. This is the correct procedure when bringing in a cold camera into a warm place.