My new dew heater strap just saved a whole night of shooting

I was out near Flagstaff last weekend trying to get some shots of the Orion Nebula. About an hour in, my lens started fogging up bad, like you could barely see through it. I remembered I had bought one of those cheap heater straps online for maybe 35 bucks, so I wrapped it around the lens barrel. It cleared the fog in like two minutes and I got the rest of my frames. Anyone have a go-to brand for these things that lasts more than a season?

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ivan_fisher9913d ago

My buddy’s strap melted his lens hood once.

ninasanchez13d agoMost Upvoted

Honestly, a strap melting a lens hood sounds like a one in a million thing. Tbh I've left my camera bag in a hot car plenty of times and the worst I get is a warm body. Unless his buddy was shooting on the surface of the sun, I have to wonder if something else was going on. Maybe it was a cheap plastic hood that was already messed up.