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Winter's the best time to be out with a camera!
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My Olympus E-500 works perfectly in weather as cold as -20 degrees Celsius (the lowest verified temperature I've used it in; some valleys I've been to have probably been alot colder, but I never braught a thermometer with me, so there it is). The LCD reacts slower and the focusing ring on the 14-45 gets stiffer, but the mechanical operation is flawless; shutter, mirror, aperture, autofocus and zoom. Before I go back inside, however, I always stuff the camera in an air-tight plastic bag wich let's the condensation form on the outside of the bag as the camera gets back up to room temperature. I once experienced a loss of battery capacity after shooting outside in the winter with a half-charged battery for four hours. I took the battery out of the camera and heated it in my inner jacket pocket, but when I put it back in the camera again condensation formed INSIDE the camera. Needless to say, I dried it out for a couple of days on the bathroom floor with open card- and battery doors and without the lens attached (praise that SSWF) before powering it up again.
Enclosed is a 60-second exposure with the ZD 50 MM. F/2.0 Macro @ ISO200, looking straight across Bals Fjord near Tromsø, in Troms County (the second northmost @ 69 degrees northern lattitude) up here in Norway. The only illumination were the full moon and the stars, but the temperature was no lower than a sweaty ~-10 degrees Celsius.
Camera-Specific Properties:Equipment MakeOLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.Camera ModelE-500Camera SoftwareAdobe Photoshop CS2 WindowsMaximum Lens Aperturef/2.0Color Filter Array Pattern702Image-Specific Properties:Image OrientationTop, Left-HandHorizontal Resolution520 dpiVertical Resolution520 dpiImage Created2007:03:06 04:46:47Exposure Time60 secF-Numberf/2.8Exposure ProgramManualISO Speed Rating200Lens Aperturef/2.8Exposure Bias0 EVMetering ModePatternLight SourceFine WeatherFlashNo Flash, CompulsoryFocal Length50.00 mmColor Space InformationsRGBImage Width1000Image Height750RenderingNormalExposure ModeManualWhite BalanceManualScene Capture TypeStandardGain ControlLow Gain UpContrastNormalSaturationNormalSharpnessSoft
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