Pentax should have you test their stuff. -25 C is really impressive. I tried very hard not to laugh at your nose getting stuck to the LCD. I know it hurt, but it's the first time I've ever heard of that.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:46 AM, AlunFoto <alunf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On the last day at Svalbard I joined a snowmobile hike to the East > coast of Spitsbergen, a 10 hour ride. I carried the 645D in a > holsterbag (a LowePro Toploader) on my chest. The temperature in > Longyearbyen when we started was -25 °C. I could swear it was colder > on the glacier. > > In short, the camera performed flawlessly. Exposures turned out > correct, the AF was snappy and accurate, processing and storing to > memory card worked at normal speeds and without glitch. All buttons > operated as they should. > > There were some gotchas, though, but hardly the camera's fault. > 1. The LCD on top of the camera got veeeery sluggish. When changing > shutter speed with the control wheel, for example, it took about five > seconds to switch the displayed number. > 2. All of the manual focus 645 lenses and many of the FA lenses are > constructed in the same way as are the A-series for K-bayonet. That > is, with a lot of metal. This means one has to be careful about > handling the lenses with bare skin. Any amount of moisture will freeze > on touch. > 3. The glass on rear display also gets very cold. My nose stuck to it > twice. The skin is still sore, two days later. > 4. Battery performance goes down. Mine was fully charged in the > morning. By lunch I had made about 100 exposures, and the indicator > showed 67% charge. Some time in the afternoon I tried to do a series > on passing snowmobiles. The indicator dropped to empty after five > shots, but all images were stored correctly. I tried again with eight > exposures twenty minutes later, and everything still got stored > properly. The indicator would go back to 67% after a couple of > minutes' rest in the holsterbag. > > Oh, and _don't_ breathe out with the camera before your face! :-) > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
