Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 operating temps
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 19:31:48 -0500
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At 05:19 PM 11/8/01 -0600, Mark Ritter wrote:
>What about the M cameras that have been atop Everest?  Mighty cold there.
>Friend of mine is a guide who's been to the top three times.  He carrys a
>point and shoot Contax that seems to work well for him

Two points.

First, the top of Mt Everest in May really ISN'T that cold all the time and
temperatures out of the wind sometimes reach 70 degrees fahrenheit or so
(20 degrees C).  It rarely gets below a real temperature of -10 C (14
degrees F), though the WIND-CHILL factor can get down to -50C or so.  (But
a WIND-CHILL temperature effects living flesh only and will no more cause a
machine to die than to make a block of ice any more frozen than it already
is.)

Second, those who shoot routinely in colder climates normally keep things
like cameras inside their outer garments, where the temperature will be
chill but not cold.  

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
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