Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Arctic circle and Leicas
From: "Glen M. Robinson" <gmrobinson@imation.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:20:20 -0500

leica@olemiss.edu on 09/21/98 02:06:08 PM

".....having lunch with a friend (Dean Conger, National Geographic
photographer) who had just returned from the Arctic circle. H
He used the Leica at temperatures down to 50 below and a wind chill factor
he
could not measure and it never stopped working.


Wind chill is not real temperature; it is how cold skin feels when exposed
to wind.  Machines, such as Leicas cannot get colder than the air
temperature regardless of the wind chill.  However, wind chill does
influence the speed by which machines lose heat.  They will not get colder
than the air temperature.