RE: [Leica] Bessa R Conquers Antarctic

[Colin Vozeh <colin@longitude.com>]

I was gonna say the same thing.  My Minilux survived many weekends of skiing
in New York and Vermont when the temperatures on the mountains were easily
in the single digits Fahrenheit.  I kept the camera in my outer pocket - it
got quite cold.  It never failed.  

- -3C and I don't even put a jacket on yet - camera goes in my jeans pocket.

C. 

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Dante A. Stella [mailto:dante@umich.edu] 
Sent:	Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:19 AM
To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject:	Re: [Leica] Bessa R Conquers Antarctic


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


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