It may be better to attach a hand warmer pouch to keep the
camera, both battery and LCD, warm. Also avoids condensation.
Or buy an OM-3.
tOM
On 2 Dec 2005 at 18:14,
Mark Dapoz <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Roger Key wrote:
> >
> > In th E-500 manual under 'Operating Environment' the temperature
> > range is given as 0 - 40 degrees Celcius. This would seem to
> > severely restrict winter useage on ski trips. Does anyone have
> > experience of using an E-1, E-300, or E-500 in below freezing
> > temperatures?
>
> Last winter I put my E-1 outside for a few hours when it was about
> -30C to see how it would behave. The LCD became extremely slow and
> the BLM-1 battery gave out after a few minutes of use (it was fully
> charged). I'm sure if the E-1 had an external cold weather battery
> pack like the OM's did it would work fine in extremely low
> temperatures. The Li-Ion battery is the weakest part for cold
> weather use. I'm thinking of using something like a Quantum battery
> plugged into the external 9V battery port but I just can't bring
> myself to cutting up a $100+ external power supply just to get the
> cable!
> -mark
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