Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think you could have taken the battery out of the camera and and spare batteries in your pocket, leaving the camera wrapped in the car. Then when you were ready to go shoot, load up. You don't usually have to worry about condensation going from warm to cold, as cold air holds a lot less moisture than warm. So keeping the camera in the car or in the hotel is OK. The condensation problem comes when you come back in with the camera. Let it warm up slowly. We have just the opposite problem in Louisiana, we often take our cameras from air conditioned cars, or buildings where the humidity is low into the great outdoors, where it can be 100% humidity, and no rain! I probably am the last person you should take cold weather advice from, because it is a chilly 53 degrees F here in Natchitoches, and we've yet to have a whole day below freezing this winter, I think. Hope this helps. Key is to remember your batteries will not last as long if they are cold, just like in a car. They don't make "9 lives" batteries for the M9. On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:50 PM, <bruceslomovitz at comcast.net> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I just returned from a two week business trip to Anchorage, Alaska. I was > there for two weeks and worked crazy long hours. However I did have a > small bit of spare time. But I was anxious about taking my M9 out into > that dreadfully cold weather. The temp rarely went into positive F. > territory. I was unable to take my camera into the building where I was > working. So if I had taken it out of the hotel with me when I went to > work, it would have sat in the cold car for hours until I got out of the > work spaces. Going back to the hotel, parking the car, getting the camera, > and going back out, was just to challenging a prospect. > > > > However, Alaska in January, in general, and Anchorage in particular, are > spectacular. Unfortunately, the ice and snow, and the crappy little rental > car I had, made venturing out of Anchorage a non-starter. I'm back home > now in sunny South Carolina. But for the future, do any of you have any > suggestions as to how I could have produced more photo opportunities for > myself. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Bruce S. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA