Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have used an R6.2, R4s and R4 north of Fairbanks, Alaska when it was a balmy 43 degrees F below zero. The Leicas worked perfectly. Loading film was a bit delicate since bare hands were needed. The only problem I encountered was when I inadvertently breathed into a scarf which deflected the moist air onto my glasses. Instantly, a white frost covered both lenses. Fortunately, I was near a warm car. Bill Christensen - -----Original Message----- From: Joe Stephenson <joeleica@email.msn.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, September 21, 1998 9:20 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Arctic circle and Leicas >Maybe his Nikon's would not work because of similar non-photographic uses? >Joe Stephenson >-----Original Message----- >From: Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Date: Monday, September 21, 1998 6:21 PM >Subject: Re: [Leica] Arctic circle and Leicas > > >>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 > > > >