Yo Gord, my man. Have you been outbid on that "OM-3" yet? I sure hope so,
I wouldn't want to see it on the examination table ;-)
Now I am tempted to ask whether your 40 below is Celsius or Fahrenheit, but
I won't, because I don't think it would be gentlemanly. Instead, I will
mention that at such temperatures, use of a metal bodied camera in ungloved
hands is to be preferred - - - because you avoid the risk of dropping it
when you have to run from the polar bear you didn't spot in the snowdrift.
Chin chin!
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gordon J. Ross
Sent: 02 February 2004 16:44
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Camera Bags
Hi Piers:-)
Nice work Watson. But if one gains most of their heat in a cold environment
from the digestion of prey, camouflage allows you to get closer to your
prey, so not to be ruled out lightly. If the white thing was that
temperature driven, where were the seals when they gave the thermal color
class? Penguins must have skipped some classes (more black than white) and
as your point out yourself, my dear Watson, "A light coloured bag will
provide better heat insulation (keeping heat in, as well as keeping heat
out) than a dark bag." So if I was a polar bear I'd want to absorb heat and
be dark, but I'd want to eat so I would want to look like the surroundings
so I'd be white, the dilemma is angering, which may explain their
temperment. Should you choose to research this further, you should know what
Polar Bears call photographers--- "food"!
As for the color of a bag, the thermal properties of material and thickness
would have greater effect than exterior color, all of which become fairly
irrelavent the longer the exposure, (40 below gets in your bag sooner or
later), and there is the rude fact that if you are going to use your camera
you have to take it out of the bag. I'd leave you with that deduction
Watson and I'd like to thank Gord for the use of his computer.
Sherlock
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