RE: [Leica] RE: Bessa R Conquers Antarctic

[Paul Chefurka <Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com>]

The gentleman who wrote the original note to Stephen should go back down in July and see how his Bessa makes out...  I'd imagine winter temps of -50C would cause him to tell a different tale :-)

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Brick [mailto:jim_brick@agilent.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:12 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] RE: Bessa R Conquers Antarctic
> 
> 
> Here in Sunnyvale CA, the center of Silicon Valley, we get 
> temperatures as
> low as -4 C each winter. A few years ago, we had several 
> weeks of straight
> -8 to -10 deg C weather. Many exposed water pipes broke. A bonanza for
> plumbers. But all cameras continued working. Actually 
> everything continued
> working.
> 
> That Antarctic jaunt was not cold by any stretch of the imagination.
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> At 09:24 AM 4/5/01 -0400, Colin Vozeh wrote:
> >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
>