Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For these purposes, seriously consider something like: http://www.trissellcomputers.com/a770.htm also, i'd consider printing and shipping CD/DVD-Rs as you go... Jonathan On Sep 18, 2005, at 5:22 AM, Sander van Hulsenbeek wrote: > Tina wrote: > .................................. The ability to change > ISOs when I need to. The 1DMarkII is great at higher ISOs and, in > spite of its size and weight, is a really good, versatile camera to > take on a long trip to remote places. You might want to look into > the Mark II. It's a tank of a camera. > > Of course, you won't be that remote in Portugal and England! I > carried an Epson P2000 and my laptop to download into and had no > problems at all with batteries or room to download even with 3000+ > photos. > > --------------------------------- > > Yes. I went to the tropics in July - where is not important - with > my Canon 20 D, lenses > and Epson P2000. The latter is great (transport it in a Peli Micro > Case 1040!) and > saved my photo life. Read why: > > The Canon 20D (as well as the 1D's, checked yesterday) have as > specifications: > 0-40 degrees Celcius and 85% max relative humidity. > > That max humidity was to be my trap. In a location near the sea, > very hot, very humid, on an open plateau > about 100 m about sealevel, I was taken pictures of pitcher plants. > Sweating a lot, camera - when not in use - > in closed wathertight Orlieb-type plastic bag for transport. > Pictures were fine. > > Then the sun came out, and everything - litterally everything - got > wet : way above 85% rel. humidity. > Picture through the viewfinder fogged, sweat dripped on the body of > the camera. > The combination of it all did the camera in after a change of > lenses: stop, no more pictures, nothing! > > (Sealed pro camera's can experience the samething after a change of > lens) > > A few hours later, back at the primitive lodge - the camera came > back to life, but with an ugly striped > pattern on the pictures. That could only be seen with the P2000. > Good for the P2000! > > Back home, the camera is a total loss. Humidity has internally led > to corrosion of contacts, helped by > the fact that a switch off of power does not switch the electric > currents off it at all. > Proof - as I discovered later - : a switched off camera recognizes > a new flashcard with a light signal on the back. > > The advice: whenever in doubt - lens fogging etc: immediately rip > out the battery and flashcard. > You may save your gear, as I discovered with my new (some days > later bought in town) Canon 350D. It still > lives and managed to function through similar circumstances in > other places, fogging included. > Pictures on website. > > Will the Leica MD and the DRM be impervious to high humidity? Of > course not!............ > > Sander > Amsterdam > Holland > > www.vanhulsenbeek.com > > www.van > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >