[Leica] Edmonton in winter

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

Thank you all for your comments. Yes, the weather 
was brutal. I used to live further north in the 
1950's and one place in particular it sometimes 
got down to -60?F (and 115?F in summer) but I was 
younger then.... But it was still brutal.

I now live in a climate where it only very rarely 
gets to -5?C (about 23?F) and rarely over 32?C 
(90?F). Much easier to take. Still, it was nice 
to get back to experiencing a bit of snow 
crunching underfoot and brilliant sunshine with 
ice crystals hanging in the air. Just don't 
inhale deeply and suddenly.

I used two cameras out in the cold; an M8 with a 
couple of different lenses and a Panasonic G1 
with a zoom. Both were kept under the outer 
jacket most of the time, but probably got down to 
about -20?C after a bit. They worked fine and 
battery life seemed OK, but the Panasonic 
complained occasionally that it had lost contact 
with the lens. Other than that, absolutely no 
problems and after I had let them warm up for 
about an hour under my clothing when I got home 
(what I used to let them do when I lived there) 
they were also just fine again indoors.

As a side note: We arrived Saturday morning and 
were driven to my parents-in-laws, my wife Tanya 
went into the house and did not emerge until it 
was time to go back to the airport Monday 
evening. No reminiscent experiences of the cold 
for her.




>geez, that's brutal -- the weather, not the ladies
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>ric
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>On Dec 15, 2009, at 5:16 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:
>
>>  Over the weekend we went to Edmonton to 
>>celebrate my mother-in-law's 90th birthday. 
>>Here she is with her older sister, who turns 98 
>>tommorrow:
>>
>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/trips/EdDec09/L3011749.jpg.html
>>
>>  We picked one of the colder periods to be in 
>>Edmonton; the temperature went down to -46?C 
>>(-50?F) and was mostly in the mid -30's while 
>>we were there. I went for a bit of a walk each 
>>day, but it took some determination (and warm 
>>clothes):
>>
>>  http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hwulff/trips/EdDec09/
>>
>>  Now I can clearly remember one of the reasons we moved to Vancouver.
>>
>>  --
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