On 15 May 02 at 16:17, Richard Dibley wrote: > I note from the specs given for the D60 on Canon's UK website that the > operating temperature range is from 0 to 40 degrees Celsius. Can anyone > tell me why the range does not extend below freezing? I am thinking > about a D60 to supplement my EOS50E but I often shoot in the mountains > in winter so the ability to operate well below zero is important to me. > Any experiences of using the D60 below freezing?
Welcometo the world of NiMH, or even worse, Li-Ion.... No high-end digicam will keep working way below zero, since all have NiMH- or Li-Ion-packs.... All this even apart from the question whether the image sensor (whether CCD or CMOS) will keep working. For an impression of how much worse NiMH is in cold than NiCd, see the last alinea's on an EOS-battery chapter in general (involving the 1V, since the same problem applies to its NiMH booster pack): http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_batt.htm A possible solution would be retrofitting such a digicam with NiCd cells, but that requires quite a bit of homebrew tinkering.... (and possibly problems with charger-incompatibilities; although the other way around would be worse (NiCd->NiMH)) So, if you ever hear someone say that there is no need for analog camera's anymore, send them up a mountain in mid-winter, and see them cry, as their camera fails on them at the most precious moments....;)) CC to IR-list, there's a tendency there too to regard digi-IR as the best thing since sliced bread (while they would cry even harder, since the preparation for IR is a lot more tedious)....;)) -- Bye, Willem-Jan Markerink The desire to understand is sometimes far less intelligent than the inability to understand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!] * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
