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- From: lds@ccrl.nj.nec.com (Duan-Shin Lee)
- Subject: Re: Help photographing in snow (skiing)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.144612.19887@research.nj.nec.com>
- Sender: lds@ccrl.nj.nec.com (Duan-Shin Lee)
- Organization: C&C Research Labs, NEC USA, Princeton, N.J.
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 14:46:12 GMT
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- >rao@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Govindaraju Rao) writes:
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- >> Here in the Canadian prairies my Minolta X-700 does not function
- >> in temperatures below -15 C. The user's manual offers the remedy of
- >> concealing the camera under your jacket, thereby keeping it
- >> warm, and extricating it just before use. Take your shot and
- >> reinsert it back under your jacket.
-
- >Jake Livni writes:
-
- >>>Doesn't this result in condensation forming on and *IN* the camera and
- >>>the lenses? Isn't this a no-no for equipment?
-
- > I took a second look at the X-700 users' manual and realised
- > that I have made an error. The manual DOES NOT suggest the
- > remedy of concealing the camera under your jacket. In fact,
- > as Jake Livni has also pointed out, the manual cautions about
- > condensation problems if the camera is moved from extreme cold
- > outdoors to relatively warm indoors.
-
- What is the correct way of bringing a camera from extremely cold outdoors
- to warm indoors ?
-
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