Lens fogging problems at night

rclarke80

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Hi folks,

Was shooting a timelapse last night and after roughly an hour my lens fogged up. Any tips to prevent this? Someone told me a dilute washing up liquid mix, at which point I thought I'd come ask those in the know!

This was the timelapse upto the point of fogging, can see it in the last few frames.

https://flic.kr/p/MFBFxA
 
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Whoops, I'm not sure how to embed a video clip from Flickr?
 
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There was another thread recently on this, keep the lens warm with either a specialist lens warmer, or mucch cheaper a gel hand-warmer held on the lens with an elastic band
 
I use the gel hand warmers. They are cheap, re-usable, don't need batteries and you can put them in your bag to keep the gear warm while moving around so if you only had the kit out for a short while you don't need anything attached.
 
I've had the same problem. Looked at dew heaters but a bit of over kill. Tried gel reusable warmers but lose heat too quickly and hard to bend around the lens. Tried a few disposable ones, some are absolute rubbish. Found that hot hands are the best, approx 50p each and last for 4-5 hours. Easy to fit closely to the lens with a rubber band. Then I made a collar out of 2 layers of felt with Velcro for different size lenses. Sorted.
 
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