Keeping your Digital Camera Cool in the Car

The first thing to do is to read the manual and look at the temperature specification in the back of the manual - often the cameras today limit performance-to-spec at 104F. At some point the camera will get to a destructive value and may not recover. Therefore the aim is to delay the rise in temperature.

Here are some tips:

1. Put it in a bucket such as a white-topped cooler and in the back seat on the floor away from the hot exhaust pipe side. In addition, from the bottom and from the potential sunny side from the top, if you can find such a spot.

2. Place itn in a small inexpensive cooler and use a *small* frozen chemical ice brick (use to keep sandwiches cool without the threat of melting ice water). That should keep the temp low, however there is the possibility of condensation during humid days which is not good at all.

3. Place it is a soft cooler bag or a white foam box and keep it in the trunk.

Overall, the best way to keep you camera cool is to not leave it in the car for too long.

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