At 10:00 PM 3/2/01 +0000, Donald MacDonald wrote:
[snip]
The one environment I haven't tested them in is very high humidity. I
suspect this is the worst thing for them. Even in 'no shade'
conditions in Morocco they didn't flinch. Lowest temperature was probably
Braemar, early eighties, around -24. The meter still worked.
I reckon they're pretty tough.
I've used my OM-4 in high-humidity, cool temperature environments. The
worst was on a mountaintop in British Columbia in August 1999, shrouded by
cloud cover (which, when you're in it, is like "Scotch mist" in that
everything slowly becomes damp). The -4 failed with a set of old batteries
in it, but when I yanked 'em out and put new silvers in, it came back to
life. Temperature on that mountaintop that day was about +8 Celsius.
I've never used my OM-4 outside in the winter for extended periods of time,
but my OM-1n has worked flawlessly. The *film,* on the other hand... :-/
Garth
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