Dieter Henkel wrote:
> It was rather chilly with temperatures around zero degrees Celsius
> (that's 32 F, 0 Reaumur, 273 Kelvin, 492 Rankine - what the hell is
> Rankine??? and who uses Reaumur?) and a light breeze. After one hour
> my fingers were stiff (in spite of the use of gloves) and I had trouble
> handling the camera. I think I have to learn more about taking photos
> being exposed to cold weather for a prolonged time.
How did your camera batteries hold up? Were you using an external pack, or
just the standard lithiums? My experience in the cold has been good (the
camera can handle anything I can), but we keep hearing horror stories from
others.
>
> It was funny looking at the crowd that had gathered on that remote
> meadow on one of the hills in Vienna. It reminded me of the solar
> eclipse two years ago. Some took photos with flash, some even with
> preflash - maybe to reduce the redness of the moon :-)
>
Yeah, we don't want the man in the moon to have red eyes!
Geoff Doane, Halifax, N.S.
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