[Leica] Arctic circle and Leicas

[leica@olemiss.edu]

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