Camera causes Iphone to crash in colder weather

Now this is an odd one. My Iphone 3GS since latest firmware update has a weird "feature" When outside for a while and I try to take a photo , the whole thing just crashes and restarts for minutes. Thought at first it was happening only in really cold temperatures like -10 Celsius but last weekend was only around 0 Celsius and it was doing it again. Any idea what the cause and remedy are ?

Now this is an odd one. My Iphone 3GS since latest firmware update has a weird "feature" When outside for a while and I try to take a photo , the whole thing just crashes and restarts for minutes. Thought at first it was happening only in really cold temperatures like -10 Celsius but last weekend was only around 0 Celsius and it was doing it again. Any idea what the cause and remedy are ?

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