Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:19 PM 11/8/01 -0600, Mark Ritter wrote: >What about the M cameras that have been atop Everest? Mighty cold there. >Friend of mine is a guide who's been to the top three times. He carrys a >point and shoot Contax that seems to work well for him Two points. First, the top of Mt Everest in May really ISN'T that cold all the time and temperatures out of the wind sometimes reach 70 degrees fahrenheit or so (20 degrees C). It rarely gets below a real temperature of -10 C (14 degrees F), though the WIND-CHILL factor can get down to -50C or so. (But a WIND-CHILL temperature effects living flesh only and will no more cause a machine to die than to make a block of ice any more frozen than it already is.) Second, those who shoot routinely in colder climates normally keep things like cameras inside their outer garments, where the temperature will be chill but not cold. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html