How hot is to hot?

[cA70]

I took my camera out on the boat the other day and it was in the sun for most of it. It was in its waterproof case so that might of also ontributed to heating up on the inside.

When should i pull the plug and stop taking pics and put in a cool place? I dided it in the river a few times to try to cool the outside of the case but the inside was still heating up.

Coudl this lead to problems with my CF, bats and most importantly camera?

[royfel]

There is no definate answer to your question until someone melts a camera. But common sense tells you that there is lots of plastic inside which changes shape when hot.
Digital capture is much more noise free in a cold enviroment. If a sensor is on for a long time it developes heat that will add noise, hence noise reduction schemes for long exposures (it is because of the heat build up, not because they are long).
Astro photography involves inboard coolers on the CCD's to reduce noise.
Finally some camera manufactures put the storage device(=heat as in IBM MicroD) too close to the chip and this caused additional noise.
The official operating temp of this camera is 0-40C _32-104F) I really don't think they would kid you.
Roy Feldman

[cA70]

I read that temp in the manual somewhere, i wasn't sure whether it was the temperature of the 'day' or the temperature of the actual camera has heated up to.