Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:09 PM 2/19/2003 +0100, you wrote: >I did some shooting outdoors a few days ago when it was about 8°C below >freezing (15°F approx) and I got the dreaded "bc" message in the display >of the `really used´ (now nine month old) M7. I had remembered the >exposure time in the display, so I just went on to one of the mechanical >times, and adjusted the aperture accordingly and shot. I had brought spare >batteries along but never used them as I only had a few frames left on the >film. Back home I checked the batteries with a volt meter end they were >OK. Does somebody (who has read this far) know if lithium batteries do not >like cold weather. Anyway they are the same batteries as used in the M6, >but the past few years have not been really cold here so I have no comparison. > >Thank you for reading all this >-- >Christer Almqvist >D 20255 Hamburg and / or >F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer Lithium batteries do not like the cold. Just wear your camera inside your jacket until you get ready to take photos. Be sure the lens isn't fogged, though! The other choice is to move South. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com photos available from: http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.mira.com http://www.agpix.com http://www.newscom.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html