How Many Minutes To Allow Camera To Acclimate

• #seven

I guess the reply is 'it depends on the temperature and for how long' ultimately; I've received new electronic gear in the center of nasty Canadian deep freezes many times and take let them acclimatize for 24 hours (3 days on an unheated truck at -35C -> -40C makes for a frozen-to-the-core package...we are talking 'none....more.....frozen' here heh).

Both my newest Suhr and AX8 arrived in the dead of a very cold winter afterwards beingness on a truck for days. Salesguy at the Suhr store said "you accept to absolutely let information technology sit for 24 hours, or else"....when it arrived there were printouts, in large assuming lettering, attached to all sides of the box that read "Practise not open up for 24-hours, or else" lol....they really meant information technology.

I let the AX8 sit for a whole day before I plugged it in...and my CLR's....on and on....Canadian winters really suck. It does get a examination of i'south patience staring at crawly new goodies for a whole day before you lot tin can indulge, but ya gotta do what ya gotta exercise...

sat in 29F degrees for almost eight hours

Ahhhhh that's not too bad at all lol!! But I myself would leave information technology for at least 16 hours, mayhap open the outer box after eight hours...let it warm up slowly.

Where you lot can encounter issues is if y'all take an item from a cold low humidity environment, into a very hot and humid environment.

Yea on the days I feel like getting out at -20C to take pictures outside I put my camera in a big pocketbook and seal it before I bring information technology into the business firm and permit it sit for a few hours to prevent condensation forming. Condensation is e'er a concern someday y'all go from cold to warm...I ever default to 'safe-mode' and let things warm up slowly.

Last edited: Dec 10, 2018

• #12

Salesguy at the Suhr store said "yous accept to absolutely let it sit for 24 hours, or else"....when information technology arrived in that location were printouts, in large bold lettering, fastened to all sides of the box that read "Do non open for 24-hours, or else" lol....they really meant it/QUOTE]
Similar to what lqdsnddist said, I recall that's mostly about the cease nifty, rather than about the electronics...

• #13

I've never had a problem with this, never heard of anyone e'er having a trouble with this. I've put electronics at 25,000 feet (-lx degrees Fahrenheit) and let them cold soak for an hour earlier turning them on (we're talking 1.5 1000000 dollar cameras, SATCOM equipment and weapons systems on 6 million dollar Predators - viii+ million total in equipment aloft not including Hellfires at 130 grand a pop) and never once had an issue where anything was besides cold to utilise.

The only items I would permit come up to room temperature before using are guitars out of concern for the cervix.

• #fourteen

You take Fashion more patience than I exercise. Would have given it an hour...max.

IMO these things are tested dorsum and along for this stuff. Anyone on tour would certainly have to deal with temperature extremes, and any manufacturer would business relationship for this...or else dog+world would stop buying their stuff.

• #15

Afaik consumer electronics semiconductors have a storage temperature which is the same as the operating temperature. That range is typically 0 to 70 degrees C. In contrast the military machine spec requires -xx to 125 degrees C. The real problem are LCD and TFT displays that are better kept at room temperature.

• #16

Similar to what lqdsnddist said, I recall that's more often than not nigh the finish great, rather than about the electronics...

Definitely was regarding the terminate on the Suhr...I just wanted to bluster about everything I get in the winter heh....

• #17

Years agone I remember helping to unbox a few dozen iMac'southward that were sitting on the truck for several days in -30C to install at a site. They were then cold you couldn't even hold onto them for long.

The chain-of-command-up-higher up insisted on powering them and getting them deployed ASAP without letting them warm up, ignoring our advice to let them acclimate at to the lowest degree for a couple of hours. They all immediately turned on, and booted, etc., but 80%+ of that lot that was installed at that location failed after a year or and then. The hundreds of others we installed over ~20 sites (they were delivered and they had time to sit for more and so a day) had normal failure rates, and so it was articulate, in this example, thermal shock introduced some harm that unfolded some time later.

• #xviii

I've never had a problem with this, never heard of anyone ever having a problem with this. I've put electronics at 25,000 feet (-60 degrees Fahrenheit) and let them common cold soak for an 60 minutes before turning them on (we're talking i.5 million dollar cameras, SATCOM equipment and weapons systems on 6 meg dollar Predators - 8+ million total in equipment aloft non including Hellfires at 130 grand a pop) and never one time had an issue where anything was likewise cold to use.

If I had a camera worth that much it had meliorate be able to piece of work at the same temperature equally my cold, cold heart, which is considerably colder then -60F

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