Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ok, the Friday before last I went with a colleague from work to a large exhibition of diamonds here in Paris - luckily she wasn't wanting free samples or expecting me to buy her any of the exhibits. Had to queue for about 40mins in the pouring, and I mean pouring, rain. Got back to my apartment and the inside of my rucksack was damp, no it wasn't damp it was wet. Took out my hexar RF and noticed that the LCD was blinking and the camera was making a whirring noise once every 30 seconds or so. One dead camera, took batteries out. Following morning put batteries back still not working. Saturday evening tried again and it clicked back into life even though the film that had been in the body had advanced to the last frame. Moral - water and electronics do _not_ mix Steve - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Johnny Deadman Sent: 23 July 2001 02:18 To: LUG Subject: Re: [Leica] digital M redoux & digital M COOL Stuff! ;-) on 7/22/01 7:53 PM, Ted Grant at tedgrant@home.com wrote: > John Brownlow wrote: >>>> ever tried reloading a Leica in the middle of a thunderstorm with no > shelter rangefinder fogged up so bad I couldn't focus<<<< > > Jeeeeeesh, > Not me. I've changed them in the middle of a howling blizzard and that's bad > enough. There must have been some heavy duty humidity for the range finder > to fog. > ted scenario -- Ed Mirvish's 87th birthday party 3000 of the scariest looking Canadians (and I mean SCARY) you have ever seen in a total feeding frenzy for free cake and deodorant (no kidding... deodorant... and they needed it). then the light starts falling 1 stop every 30 seconds, and the sky just totally opens... KABOOM... thunder, cats & dogs everyone is running for cover... panic in the streets... only there IS no cover... people are pulling tarpaulins over themselves, clothing themselves in garbage sacks, whole families huddling under sodden cardboard boxes. It is totally hilarious. I couldn't not photograph it even though I knew it was bad news for the Leica. Anway by the time I have shot my roll of film there is not one square inch of shelter left, I am totally soaked to the skin, and it is raining harder than ever. But the pictures are still good... great strings of balloons have come adrift and are blowing down the teeming street... so I had no choice. by this time the sunscreen has run into my eyes so I am scale focusing anyway now the rain slacks off a little and I notice that there's no second rf image... presumably the mirror has fogged up inside (it's drying off now with the back, lens and baseplate off) luckily I had my T90 with me too so I carried on taking pix as the sun came out, which was just as well as a small riot has now broken out over the aforesaid balloons, with parents quite literally battling each other to get them for their kids. hmm just checked the Leica and still almost no rf image :( time for a trip to the shop I think - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com ICQ: 109343205