Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That's not very cold. -3 celsius is something like 25 degrees farenheit. +4 is something like 38 degrees F. If the Antarctic is that warm, I'm moving there! It's colder in the midwest. Stephen Gandy wrote: > I received this short email from a Bessa R customer who just got back from > the Antarctic. He included a pic which will be on my Bessa R page in the > next few days. he writes: > > "My long Antarctic season is, finally, over. But no complaints. Lots of > success with my censusing and other work. > > Wanted to tell you that the Bessa-R and f2.5 35mm did rather well, > indeed (see attached Weddell seal phot), surviving quite well through > ambient temps of -3C to +4C and wind chills as low as -8 to -10C. > Probably the furthest south the R has thus far been. Quite useful for > lots of the photo documentation that our Inventory generates. Take care > of her and she survives nicely." > > frankly, I had no idea how the R would do in that cold weather, but I'm > happy to hear it it worked fine even in that environment. Of course, > probably not everyone could do this, but then he did have an ENTIRE day to > play with his new camera before leaving for the Antarctic. > > Stephen