How to avoid condensation inside housing in hot humid weather?

Julian500 wrote:

I own an EWA Marine bag/housing for my 5D and have used it only a small handful of times. A couple years ago I fried a camera inside of it due to a huge amount of condensation build up while I was kayaking in very hot humid sunny conditions. I was trying to keep it out of direct sunlight by placing a wet T shirt over it but in the end I found almost a half inch of water sitting on the bottom of the bag inside. Now I have an assignment in Florida coming up which will require some underwater shots and was looking at buying one of those Meikon housings for Canon 5Diii to make my setup look less clunky.

Since I'll find myself once again in humid environment and currently live in NYC where it definitely won't be anything but cold before then, I can't test things out beforehand. I've read about placing the camera in the housing and sealing in as dry of air as possible (such as air conditioned room). Also using silica packets.

If I stick to these two am I totally fine? Should I still avoid letting the camera/housing sit in the sun once it's sealed?

Thanks for any tips!

Julian

using silica packets and avoid letting the camera/housing sit in the sun. actually on a good scuba diving boat you will always find a bucket full of water where all cameras reside until the dive.

for those boats that do not have a bucket, i wrap housing in wet towel and keep it in the shade.