In the bag

I think Mrs W thought I'd finally lost it when I bagged up her precious camera but soon realised why.

We had been out in the garden doing some last minute planting before losing light and the temperature had dropped considerably. She had been taking photographs in the garden and her camera had been out in the cold for a while. However, when I came into the kitchen, my glasses instantly steamed up as the moisture in the air condensed.

The thing is that this will happen to any cold surface brought into a warm moist atmosphere, for example a precious camera. Now I can easily wipe of the condensation from my glasses but if the same thing happened to the camera, there is a distinct danger that moisture could get into the camera and condense and then you start getting rust forming plus electronics and mechanisms not working properly and then your camera stops being precious because it isn't any good any more.

So, one way to prevent that type of disaster happening is to put the camera in a bag and seal it while out in the cold so that when you come inside, the moisture cannot get at it. Then the important thing is to keep it in the bag until its temperature has regulated to that indoors (or certainly not as cold as it had become outside) and thereafter, moisture will not condense on its cold surfaces.