Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] mechanical shutters
From: "M.E.Berube" <MEB@goodphotos.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 12:22:46 -0500

At 08:36 AM 11/9/00 -0800, Douglas Herr wrote:
>In remote parts of the world (i.e., rural Alaska) power supplies are not 
>reliable.  For me, it's enough to think about whether I have enough film 
>or not.  I don't want to also think about whether I'm packing enough 
>batteries in or not.

Ain't that the truth. When I lived and shot in AK, it first determined me 
to rid myself of my X370 snapshot camera when I had taken it along side my 
assigned 500CM Hassleblad kit on a shoot "down range." Within 10 minutes at 
- -70 the X370 (with fresh batteries) locked up tightly....the Hassy 
continued to snap away without fail not seeming to notice the cold at all.

I traded the X370 shortly thereafter for a second SRT body and had them 
both graphite lubed. The rest of the winter I shot my mechanical shuttered 
35's happily in even Ice Fog conditions.

Carpe Luminem,
Michael