Hi all, currently sat in Alaska here and it’s absolutely freezing, just started using my new camera (Canon IXUS 500) I got for Christmas and it’s frozen over most nights.
So I’m wondering does anyone warm up their camera before shooting? I’ve got an egg incubator cheap off eBay in the garage, and 30 minutes before I use it I pop it in to heat up.
I take the camera out and it retains it heat for under an hour, and also thaws the freeze from the night before.
My husband says the cameras internals work better when it’s warm, and I’m definitely taking better quality pictures, maybe the heat is effecting the lens? anyway it feels a lot nicer when I hold the warm camera as it keeps my fingers warm.
Not sure if egg incubating is the only way to heat a camera up, but I’m sure a microwave, oven or airfryer could work.
Obviously you can only bake cameras for so long before they start to melt, so my last session I settled on 20 minutes in the oven or 5 minutes in the airfryer, not tried the microwave yet. The camera came out hot and smoking and still in tact.
Anyone else tried this before ? Interested to hear peoples thoughts and if you reckon I’m causing any long lasting damage to my cameras by heating them up during winter months.