[Leica] RE: Bessa R Conquers Antarctic

[Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>]

Here in Sunnyvale CA, the center of Silicon Valley, we get temperatures as
low as -4 C each winter. A few years ago, we had several weeks of straight
- -8 to -10 deg C weather. Many exposed water pipes broke. A bonanza for
plumbers. But all cameras continued working. Actually everything continued
working.

That Antarctic jaunt was not cold by any stretch of the imagination.

Jim


At 09:24 AM 4/5/01 -0400, Colin Vozeh wrote:
>I was gonna say the same thing.  My Minilux survived many weekends of skiing
>in New York and Vermont when the temperatures on the mountains were easily
>in the single digits Fahrenheit.  I kept the camera in my outer pocket - it
>got quite cold.  It never failed.  
>
>-3C and I don't even put a jacket on yet - camera goes in my jeans pocket.
>
>C. 
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: 	Dante A. Stella [mailto:dante@umich.edu] 
>Sent:	Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:19 AM
>To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject:	Re: [Leica] Bessa R Conquers Antarctic
>
>
>That's not very cold.  -3 celsius is something like 25 degrees farenheit.
>+4
>is something like 38 degrees F.  If the Antarctic is that warm, I'm moving
>there!  It's colder in the midwest.
>
>Stephen Gandy wrote:
>
>> I received this short email  from a Bessa R customer who just got back
>from
>> the Antarctic.  He included a pic which will be on my Bessa R page in the
>> next few days.  he writes:
>>
>> "My long Antarctic season is, finally, over. But no complaints. Lots of
>> success with my censusing and other work.
>>
>> Wanted to tell you that the Bessa-R and f2.5 35mm did rather well,
>> indeed (see attached Weddell seal phot), surviving quite well through
>> ambient temps of -3C to +4C and wind chills as low as -8 to -10C.
>> Probably the furthest south the R has thus far been. Quite useful for
>> lots of the photo documentation that our Inventory generates. Take care
>> of her and she survives nicely."
>>
>> frankly,  I had no idea how the R would do in that cold weather, but I'm
>> happy to hear it it worked fine even in that environment.   Of course,
>> probably not everyone could do this, but then he did have an ENTIRE day to
>> play with his new camera before leaving for the Antarctic.
>>
>> Stephen