RE: [Leica] M6 operating temps

["Wang, Albert" <Albert.Wang@ibx.com>]

Is that the reason why in cold temperatures people shoot with R8's then? :)
hahahaha!

Alfie

- -----Original Message-----
From: Greg Locke [mailto:locke@straylight.ca]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 1:02 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 operating temps


At 05:20 PM 11/8/2001, you wrote:
>Hmmm - not quite true Jo - my M6 has frozen solid several times before i
>have - i.e. you need a pipe wrench to focus the lens and an exposure at
>1/125 sec takes around 2 seconds!
>
>I note he brochure says tested to -20c. The above is from around -35c
>to -40c/f
>
>BTW my N***n F4 has carried on as long as I can last in those conditions
>(last year, shooting some of the breeding stock of  Eskimo Dogs out for a
>run....
>
>tim

I'm afraid I have to concur with my even more northern colleague.

More then once my M6's have seized solid in a "brisk"  North Atlantic 
breeze in January.
Those pictures in the brochures of the Leica at the north pole must have 
been taken with a Nikon :^)

Sadly, this seems to be the weakness of the M6.


Greg Locke
St. John's, Newfoundland
http://www.greglocke.com
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