Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dante Some people should not be allowed to handle numbers :-) Jerry Dante Stella wrote: > If 20C is cooking a camera, we are all sunk. > > ------------ > Dante Stella > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html