Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Karen Check your mathematics. 20 degrees Celsius is 68 Fahrenheit. It is humidity that is ruinous to the subject of the original discussion. A refrigeration unit will INCREASE the relative humidity of its space. A Leica can live a looooong life at 90 F. Jerry Karen Nakamura wrote: > It depends on the temperature of the room. If the room is above > 80F/20C, then you're going to start cooking things. First the film on > the inside, then the plastics. Remember that plastics outgas a lot of > icky stuff that has a tendency to migrate onto lenses. A 15 watt bulb > is safer. > > Then again, MP users have nothing to fear but fear itself (and > perhaps the vulcanite). > > Karen > > p.s. In hot/sticky Japan, they sell refrigerators for film/cameras. > They are about $500 each. You can achieve the identical result > stateside with the $100 wine refrigerators at Costco. > > >-- > >Wouldn't a metal storage cabinet, fitted with a light socket, with a > >60 W. bulb left burning, be a viable alternative to spending a lot > >of money for a purpose-built dry cabinet? > > > >Bob Marvin > >-- > >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html