Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]leica@olemiss.edu on 09/21/98 02:06:08 PM ".....having lunch with a friend (Dean Conger, National Geographic photographer) who had just returned from the Arctic circle. H He used the Leica at temperatures down to 50 below and a wind chill factor he could not measure and it never stopped working. Wind chill is not real temperature; it is how cold skin feels when exposed to wind. Machines, such as Leicas cannot get colder than the air temperature regardless of the wind chill. However, wind chill does influence the speed by which machines lose heat. They will not get colder than the air temperature.