On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Ken Lin wrote:
> > can anyone tell me how the EOS 3 behaves in the snow? I will cover a
> > snowboard event in 2 weeks and have never used my EOS 3 in such a
> situation
> > until now. Will the light meter of the 3 give the correct exposure values
> or
> > should I make corrections? If I have to correct, by how much?
Last weekend I was shooting some architecture/construction shots.
Everything was pretty much coverred in snow (finally... I hate the winter
here in Helsinki...). Temperature was -22 Celcius. Unfortunately I got
sick (no, not from that cold :-) ... my wife had gotten the flu a few days
before and now I got it), so I've not been ably to develop the film yet.
But this is what I usually do: I either shoot with evaluative and print
film and let the camera do it's magic (well sometimes I use some modest
overexposure depending on the scene), OR I go for manual, (usually when
shooting slide film) meter of from snow and overexpose that upto +2 stops
depending on the weather (or use multispot). Sometimes I also use
evaluative with slide film, but even then I check at least some scenes
against manual exposure to be sure camera is doing what it's supposed to
be doing. Shooting with manual, you will have to remember to check it once
in a while. The light keeps on changing. I would think (but I have no
proof) that the smaller your subject is and thus the more snow you have in
the scene (and specially if you are not having the AF lock at the subject)
the harder time the camera will have.
> You may want to keep the camera under your coat to keep the battery from
> loosing its' efficiency, especially if you are not using a power booster.
Ah, no use. It's just a large hassle to try something like that when it's
cold. You'll just freeze yourself. And even if the camera would be kept a
bit warmed under you coat, you'll then probably just get some fogging
problems. Better to have it out in the cold all the time. But be sure to
have lots of batteries inside your coat. They do need to be warm. I was
outside shooting for about an hour with EOS3. I had shot one roll of film
during that time. The battery was not new, but still pretty ok when I
started (showed full power). It was almost completely dead when I
finnished that roll (1h). Afterwards when the battery had gotten warm
again, the EOS 3 showed full power from it. This is what happens to
batteries in cold, so be sure to have backup batteries.
BTW, I also had my wifes Digital Ixus... man what a difference between
handling a "plastic body" EOS 3 and the metal bodied Digital Ixus! After
shooting for 1 hour with EOS 3, I didn't feel anything through my
gloves... but unly after a few minutes with Digital Ixus my hands were
freezing. After half an hour my fingers were as dead as the battery of the
digital Ixus. I can't believe some claim cameras with metal bodies are
better (no, not just Nikons ;-) ...
Best regards,
Hugo.
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