Re: [Leica] RE: Bessa R Conquers Antarctic

[Stephen Gandy <Stephen@CameraQuest.com>]

true enough, but how many times have you photographed the Antarctic with one
camera, one lens, and no back up, without any reliability problems ?

with all the negative Bessa R press on the LUG about lower Cosina quality, amid
the release of the new  limited edition "Solms factory dust"  Leica lens instant
collectibles,  I was impressed that the not so expensive Bessa R did that well.

Stephen

Jim Brick wrote:

> Here in Sunnyvale CA, the center of Silicon Valley, we get temperatures as
> low as -4 C each winter. A few years ago, we had several weeks of straight
> -8 to -10 deg C weather. Many exposed water pipes broke. A bonanza for
> plumbers. But all cameras continued working. Actually everything continued
> working.
>
> That Antarctic jaunt was not cold by any stretch of the imagination.
>
> Jim
>
> At 09:24 AM 4/5/01 -0400, Colin Vozeh wrote:
> >I was gonna say the same thing.  My Minilux survived many weekends of skiing
> >in New York and Vermont when the temperatures on the mountains were easily
> >in the single digits Fahrenheit.  I kept the camera in my outer pocket - it
> >got quite cold.  It never failed.
> >
> >-3C and I don't even put a jacket on yet - camera goes in my jeans pocket.
> >
> >C.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >From:  Dante A. Stella [mailto:dante@umich.edu]
> >Sent:  Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:19 AM
> >To:    leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> >Subject:       Re: [Leica] Bessa R Conquers Antarctic
> >
> >
> >That's not very cold.  -3 celsius is something like 25 degrees farenheit.
> >+4
> >is something like 38 degrees F.  If the Antarctic is that warm, I'm moving
> >there!  It's colder in the midwest.
> >
> >Stephen Gandy wrote:
> >
> >> I received this short email  from a Bessa R customer who just got back
> >from
> >> the Antarctic.  He included a pic which will be on my Bessa R page in the
> >> next few days.  he writes:
> >>
> >> "My long Antarctic season is, finally, over. But no complaints. Lots of
> >> success with my censusing and other work.
> >>
> >> Wanted to tell you that the Bessa-R and f2.5 35mm did rather well,
> >> indeed (see attached Weddell seal phot), surviving quite well through
> >> ambient temps of -3C to +4C and wind chills as low as -8 to -10C.
> >> Probably the furthest south the R has thus far been. Quite useful for
> >> lots of the photo documentation that our Inventory generates. Take care
> >> of her and she survives nicely."
> >>
> >> frankly,  I had no idea how the R would do in that cold weather, but I'm
> >> happy to hear it it worked fine even in that environment.   Of course,
> >> probably not everyone could do this, but then he did have an ENTIRE day to
> >> play with his new camera before leaving for the Antarctic.
> >>
> >> Stephen