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Off Topic => Anything Goes => Topic started by: BIGFRANK on January 15, 2011, 11:17:41 PM

Title: Bring In The Brass Monkeys!!!
Post by: BIGFRANK on January 15, 2011, 11:17:41 PM: Man its gonna be cold for a few days!! Stay warm friends! -22c with the windchill...brrrrrrrrr.
Title: Re: Bring In The Brass Monkeys!!!
Post by: Kin Lau on January 16, 2011, 11:43:59 AM: Quote from: "BIGFRANK"
Man its gonna be cold for a few days!! Stay warm friends! -22c with the windchill...brrrrrrrrr.

You realize that this morning in Ottawa, we are -21C w/o the windchill :)
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Post by: Bluffs Birder on January 16, 2011, 11:49:28 AM: Holy crap, don't go and freeze your camera to your eye Kin...ouch!!!

Walter
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Post by: Axeman on January 16, 2011, 12:44:14 PM: I'm watching the weathernetwork while waiting for the past 2.5 hours waiting for CAA to pull my vehicle out of the ditch I drove into last night during the snowstorm....and they're telling me we got 10 cm of snow....I'm looking out my window and it looks more like 40 cm....who are they kidding?
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Post by: ravynne40 on January 16, 2011, 01:06:28 PM: Quote from: "Axeman"
I'm watching the weathernetwork while waiting for the past 2.5 hours waiting for CAA to pull my vehicle out of the ditch I drove into last night during the snowstorm....and they're telling me we got 10 cm of snow....I'm looking out my window and it looks more like 40 cm....who are they kidding?

You know the weather people lie right?..they always lie...don't trust the weather people!! EVER... :)
Title: Too Cold for cameras?
Post by: ravynne40 on January 16, 2011, 01:15:24 PM: At what point is it too cold to go out in the cold with a camera? (just curious)
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Post by: Axeman on January 16, 2011, 03:38:28 PM: I don't know re: taking pictures but at minus 20, it's too cold to pee outside.
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Post by: ravynne40 on January 16, 2011, 05:53:01 PM: Quote from: "Axeman"
I don't know re: taking pictures but at minus 20, it's too cold to pee outside.

LMAO your are funny!
Title: Brass Monkey's
Post by: Napper on January 16, 2011, 06:27:01 PM: Cold weather shooting

I guess it all depends on your camera. I suspect your battery would be the first to succumb to the temps.

Do a google search on you camera and cold weather operation

I did. see this link

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read. ... e=34142038 (http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1039&message=34142038).

Hey Axeman you OK? There was heavy lake effect stuff coming off of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay last night. It spoiled our plans again.

We want to get up North to visit our place but it snows every time we make plans to go up there. :x

It should be fun in the Morning heading to work -16 to -18 with gusts up to 50 km. (2km of walking involved) When I was youngster in college at

Thunder-Bay it would have been a balmy day for January.

Napper :D
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Post by: ravynne40 on January 16, 2011, 07:23:53 PM: Thanks for link Napper :)
Title: Re: Too Cold for cameras?
Post by: Kin Lau on January 16, 2011, 09:12:21 PM: Quote from: "ravynne40"
At what point is it too cold to go out in the cold with a camera? (just curious)

I usually quit by about -25C or so. That's when exposed skin easily freezes. Starting around -20C, I find that my camera's AF speed slows significantly and the motor starts sounding a bit strained. When I was still shooting film, around -20C, you have a much higher chance of tearing the sprockets. At -30C, static discharge becomes a big problem since that will ruin your film.

We were shooting the Rosy Finches in New Mexico last winter on top of the Sandia Crest, 13,000 ft up, -15C but winds 50km/h or stronger. I think I lasted about 1hr or so, but the cameras and lenses were fine.

If you're planning a trip up north during the winter, and expect to hit -35C to -40C, it's recommended to send the camera body and lenses in for the extreme cold treatment. Basically, they will remove all the lubricants as they will all harden. That also renders the camera and lens useless for normal use in warmer climates.
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Post by: ravynne40 on January 16, 2011, 09:56:50 PM: Thanks Kin Lau, that is very interesting, I was always wondering how they filmed things up in the arctic and antarctic (I'm always watching nature shows and was curious about the cameras)
its good information and very useful. I never knew they could "winterize" a camera :)
Now I know :)
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Post by: Raven11:11 on January 23, 2011, 09:53:25 PM: CARRY A FLASK WITH SOME GOOD OL BRANDY OR SINGLE MALT................

Quote from: "Axeman"
I don't know re: taking pictures but at minus 20, it's too cold to pee outside.
Title: Brass Monkeys..you know its cold when...
Post by: ravynne40 on January 23, 2011, 11:00:14 PM: I jut heard on the news that firemen were trying to put out a fire and the water was freezing before it could even land on the fire...now that's damned cold!!!
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Post by: Axeman on January 23, 2011, 11:38:54 PM: I saw footage on the weather network that a viewer sent in...he was taking water from a kettle after it boiled and throwing it in the air and it fell as snow.
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Post by: Moira on January 24, 2011, 05:56:25 PM: Last winter on Amherst Island, the battery on my 50D died when I was finally getting the chance to shoot my first Saw Whet. It was -23. A fellow photographer told me to warm it up in my hand. I had my usual hand warmers in my mitts and the battery came back to life. Made me very happy!
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Post by: BIGFRANK on January 24, 2011, 06:21:02 PM: A friend had it effect his image stabilized binoculars in the same way. We were at "spring" Raptor Watch at Beamer and the batteries in his binos died in about 15min. Luckily he had his "old fashioned" set in the car. Seems the cold has broken for now thank goodness...welcome to winter in Canada!
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Post by: Kin Lau on January 26, 2011, 05:12:00 PM: Quote from: "Axeman"
I saw footage on the weather network that a viewer sent in...he was taking water from a kettle after it boiled and throwing it in the air and it fell as snow.

I tried that on Monday and Tuesday morning... it works. It doesn't turn into snow, rather it evaporates into a cloud.

Monday was only -24C in the morning, Tuesdays was -33C here in Vanier, Ottawa East. We only reached a high of -21C on Tuesday :shock: .. that's ambient temp, not windchill.