Here's a new one I hadn't thought of until it happened to me today while shooting 2 sheets of IMAGO direct positive paper I just got from lomography.com: my Sinar's GG started fogging up.
It does make sense since I was using the compendium as a viewing hood (but in direct sun I still needed a t-shirt to block extraneous light) and it is near 90F/32C. Since I just grabbed my camera out of my office and went out into the sun, it didn't have time to acclimate in temperature between the air conditioning and the steamy midwestern sun. Once it started fogging up, focusing went right out the window. It was a good thing I only went out with 1 holder because that's as far as I got.
When it's hot like this, how do store or manage your LF gear so that it gets properly acclimated in and out of air conditioning? I have a couple old sets of pantyhose with rice in them that I use in place of silica and I can plop my camera and lenses into a plastic baggie and zip it tight for my digital stuff. But I can't really do that on my Sinar. Wondering how everyone else does this in the summer months?
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