On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 09:53:22PM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: > > Don't go to Singapore, the average lows vary between 76-79 / 24-26 and the > high from 86-90/ 32-34 with the humidity hovering around 84%.
Not entirely off-topic: On my way from London to Auckland back in '78 I stopped off in Singapore (16 hours on planes, including 90 minutes on the runway in Oman for a refuelling stop with the A/C turned off, and a military vehicle parked with a machine gun trained on the plane in case anyone tried to get off, was more than enough for me). If you think Singapore is hot, try sitting in a cigar tube for an hour+ with no A/C and 110/45 temperatures outside! During the stopover, I also planned to visit the main Pentax distributor in Singapore to pick up a few items (an ME body and power winder, 28mm and 80-200mm lenses, a flash, etc.) to supplement my MX - prices there were significantly better than those in the UK. So the next morning (Saturday) I hailed a taxi and asked to be taken there. After a brief discussion with the taxi driver, who assured me that the shop would not be open on a Saturday, but fortunately his brother ran a camera shop that would be open, and could give me a better price .., we agreed that the taxi would take me where I asked to go, and then when I saw that the shop really was closed we could go on to the alternative destination. Of course the distributor was open, and I was able to pick up everything that I wanted. Not only that - they gave me a package deal, so for the amount I had budgeted I also got several filters and a second 50mm/f1.4 thrown in (the MX already had one). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
