From: Doug Herr <telyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [LRFlex] Re: Adventures at 32 Below...
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:39:34 -0800
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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