Heat resistant camera bags

It seems I always come across situations where I wish I had my camera with me, but I am sure it happens to us all. My problem is the Texas heat, keeping my camera in the trunk temp. gets well over 100 and I don't want to anything to happen to the sensor(s).

Does anyone know of a camera bag that protects against heat and/or cold.

Yup Simple solution, BUY a picnic cooler....... Even a $3 foam cooler will keep your camera from melting in the trunk. If you think it will be super TX hot, then drop an ice pack in with it. But really a cooler alone will keep it cool (I did that back in the film days, with camera and especially film)

Mark H

I use the large (not the largest) cooler I have, maybe can fit 2 small watermelons, and I put one small ice pack and put the whole camera bag in there with it. Just remember, if you have too much cool inside, the cameras and lenses will mist up when you take them out. So, just one little cool is better than one big one. It keeps my camera gear okay for about 6 hours in the car without any issues.

I found this reference on http://cachescientific​.com …ion=content&do_​pdf=1&id=9

How hot is it in your car or car trunk?
(Sunday, 24 September 2006) - Written by Administrator - Last Updated (Monday, 10 September 2007)

Park your car in the sun for a few hours and it gets hot, hot, hot. Just how hot does it get? Maximum operating temperature for most consumer electronics including digital cameras is about 105F and storage is often a maximum of 120F.

Thank you for asking. On a 95 degree day, my car parked in the sun gets to nearly 140 degrees. I know because I ran the experiment! Your's could be hotter.


Here's what I did. I bought an Oregon Scientific RMR382/BLRBK Wireless Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer with Self-Setting Atomic Clock from Fry's Electronics for $23 and set it up according to instructions.

The outdoor thermometer reads up to 140F, but the indoor tops out at 122F. In the morning before work, I reset the min/max temperature and
placed the "outdoor" thermometer in the passenger compartment and the "indoor" atomic clock with thermometer in the trunk. When I got to work, I parked the car in the sun.


After work I checked the maximum temperature. Inside the passenger compartment, the temperature had reached 130 while in the trunk it was a cool 120. The official high for the cloudless day was 95. I've performed the experiment many times now with similar results, sometimes higher and sometimes lower.


The operating termperature for electronic equiment, like digital cameras, is often specified to be limited to temperatures below 105 F and storage to 120 F or less. On a sunny day, neither the passenger compartment nor the trunk offers a temperature safe storage for digital cameras or other equipment.


Can an ice chest in the trunk provide a safe haven for electronics? To answer the question, I placed the outdoor thermometer inside an empty plastic cooler (Blue Coleman, 9-qt, $10) in the trunk. After a day in the sun, temperature inside the ice chest in the trunk was about 15 degrees cooler. Of course there was no ice in the ice chest, because ice
would create a humidity problem for any electronics or lenses.


Finally, I tested a padded cooler (6-can, $8) inside the ice chest by putting the outdoor thermometer in the innermost padded cooler. The temperature inside the coolers now read 25-30 F lower than that inside the passenger compartment.

Even on days when the outside temperature was 105, the inner compartment remained below 105 F as long as it cooled down at night into the 70's.


While it is safer to have my camera or other electronics with me at all times, that's not always possible, at least now I know that I can leave my gear in a locked trunk inside double cooler and not have to worry about the temperature. Theft is another matter.


Consider this quote from http://www.tucsonaz.go​v/hottopics/hotcars.ht​ml:

"A car’s temperature rises an average of 19 degrees within the first 10 minutes after a car is closed up. It then rises an average of another 10 degrees within the next 10 minutes culminating in an average rise of 43 degrees within an hour."

HTH

The link below is what I use. I actually use it to take me camera to work with me. The top part, I use for my lunch. I use the cooler section for the camera. I added foam for additional protection for the camera.

http://www.thedigitals​tory.com …/insulated_lunc​h_bag.html