Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Maybe his Nikon's would not work because of similar non-photographic uses? Joe Stephenson - -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, September 21, 1998 6:21 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Arctic circle and Leicas >So let me get this straight. He used the one camera he had that was working >to clean his boots when he had a load of dead nikons. Hmm? > >Tom > >At 02:06 PM 9/21/98 -0500, you wrote: >>Hi, >>I thought I would share an e-mail that I just received from a >photojournalist >>friend, Paul Glines. >> >>".....having lunch with a friend (Dean Conger, National Geographic >>photographer) who had just returned from the Arctic circle. He said he >carried >>a basket of Nikon gear that immediately froze up and became useless unless >the >>temperature rose above zero. He carried one Leica M2 and a package of lenses. >>He used the Leica at temperatures down to 50 below and a wind chill factor he >>could not measure and it never stopped working. The punch line though was >that >>when we was trying to walk the frozen tundra he used the Leica body as a >>hammer to knock the ice off his boots that had frozen there between the heel >>and the sole." >> >>Kirk Turk >> >================================== >Thomas Kachadurian >WEB PAGE: http://members.aol.com/kachaduria