Minus 27 degrees Celsius!
We dream of having a cold snap below minus 10! ;-) Actually I don't
want it that much as the people living on the streets would definitely
find it difficult to stay alive I reckon.
I think that minus 27 is outside the operating range ;-)
Chris
On 28 Dec 2004, at 1:52, Mark Dapoz wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Wayne S wrote:
>
>> I got my E-1 in the summer, so this is the first time I have had a
>> chance
>> to check it out in Cold weather. Verdict: don't leave home without
>> your
>> OM-4t (or better, OM-3t). Lithium ion batteries really do crap out
>> quickly
>> in cold weather. I had three batteries with me keeping two in the
>> pockets,
>> but what a pain to have the camera start to go flaky right when you
>> are
>> all set up, remove the gloves, dig into the pockets to find a warm
>> battery.
>
> Yup, they're quite bad. I did a quick test the other week when we had
> our first
> cold snap and a freshly charged E-1 battery lasted about 30 minutes at
> -27C.
> That's not much time, and as you said, switching batteries is a real
> pain. I've
> been thinking about building an external cold weather pack similar to
> what we
> have with the OM's. The E-1 itself seemed to work fine in the cold
> but the LCD
> was very slow to respond. Not that it matters, at -30C you won't be
> pressing
> many buttons besides the shutter release :-)
> -mark
>
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