Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Emanuel Lowi wrote: > John & Tim wrote: > > > environments naturally. Curiously, in the newer cameras, winterising is no > > longer needed. I have a test of a M6 frozen to -20šC (not just > > exposed) and > > the shutter was still within 4% percent accuracy! > > >John, > > >I have tested my M6 at -40c with both the camera and the photographer frozen > >and neither worked too well! Apart from everything slowing down (including > >my brain functions) you need a pipe wrench to turn the focussing ring... > >among other things > > >Interestingly my N***n F4 has done well at those temps and I have usually > >packed it in before the camera did. > > >Tim A > >North of 60 > > My cold weather tests (includes living in igloos, travelling hundreds of miles by > snowmobile, never bathing and eating polar bear meat for breakfast) proved to me that > the M6 is not reliable in the cold - particularly the shutter. I carry with me a > new-ish M6, an old M3, a N**on F2 and an F4. The F2 and M3 works, first thing in the > morning after a night at below minus 30. The F4 eventually powersd up, but it and the > M6 remain erratic. > > The shutter fabric on the M6 is no longer what Leitz once used (M3 etc. is rubberized > silk, the M6 is some kind of synthetic). > > Emanuel Lowi > Montreal While I was living back in Germany for a few years, I found, when the temperatures went down to about -20C, both, my C3 and M3 the shutter slowed to such an extend , to be unusable. However my Pentax Spotmatic had no problems at all. Of course, the Leicas where not winterized, but neither was the Spotmatic. Regards, Horst Schmidt