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Subject: [Leica] Re: WHAT TO TAKE? ; -) (Tina Manley): But take care........ some Advice!
From: jonathan at openhealth.org (Jonathan Borden)
Date: Sun Sep 18 08:56:36 2005
References: <200509180837.j8I8aYMp088209@server1.waverley.reid.org> <000801c5bc32$810c2290$9600000a@Sander>

For these purposes, seriously consider something like:

http://www.trissellcomputers.com/a770.htm

also, i'd consider printing and shipping CD/DVD-Rs as you go...

Jonathan

On Sep 18, 2005, at 5:22 AM, Sander van Hulsenbeek wrote:

> Tina wrote:
> .................................. The ability to change
> ISOs when I need to.  The 1DMarkII is great at higher ISOs and, in
> spite of its size and weight, is a really good, versatile camera to
> take on a long trip to remote places.  You might want to look into
> the Mark II.  It's a tank of a camera.
>
> Of course, you won't be that remote in Portugal and England!  I
> carried an Epson P2000 and my laptop to download into and had no
> problems at all with batteries or room to download even with 3000+  
> photos.
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> Yes. I went to the tropics in July - where is not important - with  
> my Canon 20 D, lenses
> and Epson P2000. The latter is great (transport it in a Peli Micro  
> Case 1040!) and
> saved my photo life. Read why:
>
> The Canon 20D (as well as the 1D's, checked yesterday) have as  
> specifications:
> 0-40 degrees Celcius and 85% max relative humidity.
>
> That max humidity was to be my trap. In a location near the sea,  
> very hot, very humid, on an open plateau
> about 100 m about sealevel, I was taken pictures of pitcher plants.  
> Sweating a lot, camera - when not in use -
> in closed wathertight Orlieb-type plastic bag for transport.  
> Pictures were fine.
>
> Then the sun came out, and everything - litterally everything - got  
> wet : way above 85% rel. humidity.
> Picture through the viewfinder fogged, sweat dripped on the body of  
> the camera.
> The combination of it all did the camera in after a change of  
> lenses: stop, no more pictures, nothing!
>
> (Sealed pro camera's can experience the samething after a change of  
> lens)
>
> A few hours later, back at the primitive lodge - the camera came  
> back to life, but with an ugly striped
> pattern on the pictures. That could only be seen with the P2000.  
> Good for the P2000!
>
> Back home, the camera is a total loss. Humidity has internally led  
> to corrosion of contacts, helped by
> the fact that a switch off of power does not switch the electric  
> currents off it at all.
> Proof - as I discovered later - : a switched off camera recognizes  
> a new flashcard with a light signal on the back.
>
> The advice: whenever in doubt - lens fogging etc: immediately rip  
> out the battery and flashcard.
> You may save your gear, as I discovered with my new (some days  
> later bought in town) Canon 350D. It still
> lives and managed to function through similar circumstances in  
> other places, fogging included.
> Pictures on website.
>
> Will the Leica MD and the DRM be impervious to high humidity? Of  
> course not!............
>
> Sander
> Amsterdam
> Holland
>
> www.vanhulsenbeek.com
>
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In reply to: Message from alex at vanhulsenbeek.com (Sander van Hulsenbeek) ([Leica] Re: WHAT TO TAKE? ; -) (Tina Manley): But take care........ some Advice!)