Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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