[LRFlex] Re: Adventures at 32 Below...

on 12/13/04 6:37 PM, David Young at dnr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> it was a brisk 32 below (Celsius).  The lens refused to
> focus!  The follow-focus rails were frozen solid. :(
> 
> Has anybody else had experience with any brand of camera at these
> temperatures?  Problems?  Triumphs?  Now, I'm curious!
> 

When I was a college student I had a Vivitar zoom lens that got v-e-r-y
stiff in cold weather - the coldest I ever took it out was about 10 degrees
Farenheit:

http://www.wildlightphoto.com/land/lakemich.html

Apparently the aperture was working because there were several polygonal
flare spots in this photo that I cloned out.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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