cyrus
28-Dec-2006, 11:47
OK so Super Speed Graphics don't do so well when it is really really really really cold. So cold that you can literally hear the crackle when the steam from your breath freezes. So cold that your eyeballs hurt. Like on top of Mt. Damavand (http://satyar.ir/archives/damavand-3.jpg), an extinct volcano (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Damavand)near Tehran and a favorite climbing destination, about 5600 meters high & home of the White Demon who was chained here according to Persian mythology.
Lenses freeze up. The only way to keep them working is to hold the camera close to your body before taking the shot, but even then they last only an hour before they freeze up again. Naturally, breathing on them causes icy condensation. Heck even waving your gloved hand in front of them causes condensation - which promptly freezes. Also, when you take the camera outdoors, there is a massive build-up of condensation inside and on the GG. The only solution is to remove the camera back entirely to allow the air to circulate. The wind causes wind-driven snow to accumulate on the lens. If you turn the camera away from the wind, a little eddy is created that sucks in the snow. And of course if you point the camera into the wind, things are worse. In any case, the snow somehow still manages to get inside the supposedly light-tight camera body. Fingertips are too cold to feel anything & so operating levers and buttons becomes impossible. And grafmatics - well, forget it about it! Where's the chai thermos?
Lenses freeze up. The only way to keep them working is to hold the camera close to your body before taking the shot, but even then they last only an hour before they freeze up again. Naturally, breathing on them causes icy condensation. Heck even waving your gloved hand in front of them causes condensation - which promptly freezes. Also, when you take the camera outdoors, there is a massive build-up of condensation inside and on the GG. The only solution is to remove the camera back entirely to allow the air to circulate. The wind causes wind-driven snow to accumulate on the lens. If you turn the camera away from the wind, a little eddy is created that sucks in the snow. And of course if you point the camera into the wind, things are worse. In any case, the snow somehow still manages to get inside the supposedly light-tight camera body. Fingertips are too cold to feel anything & so operating levers and buttons becomes impossible. And grafmatics - well, forget it about it! Where's the chai thermos?