Comments on: Shooting In The Deep Freeze – Packers NFC Championship Part II

By: Clem

Clem — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:22:40 +0000

Charlie said: doesn’t condensation happen when you take something FROM the cold TO a warmer environment?

It happens when warm air cools. Warm air can hold more moisture than cold air. So when warm, moist air gets cold the moisture has to leave the air as rain, sleet or snow. Perhaps the moisture in the camera body air turned into water, then ice. Might have helped to put the camera in an air conditioned area, or put it in a bag with desiccant and let it cool.

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:08:54 +0000

I have a D3 and the first time I took it out in cold weather I had the same experience. Sent it back to Nikon for repair. Took it out to shoot an ice fishing tournament and again the mirror stopped lifting. Black frames and ‘err’ blinking. My D2x performs flawlessly in subzero weather.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:51:48 +0000

Layne said: “Probably was condensation that froze it.”

Correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t condensation happen when you take something FROM the cold TO a warmer environment?

Wonder if the Canon folk were having any problems ;P

By: Layne

Layne — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:29:10 +0000

I would guess it wasn’t just the camera, but the fact that it was taken from a 70 degree setting to a -30 degrees. a difference of around 100 degrees. Probably was condensation that froze it. I wonder if they would have been refrigerated, or even frozen ahead of time, or had a very slow transition to the cold, if the results would have been different. Possibly kept in a car trunk over night and never taken inside previous to shooting.

I know I have had issues in tropical weather with the lenses and prism fogging up, I’d imagine it could be the same sort of thing. Could it be from simply breathing on it?

By: Axel

Axel — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:12:44 +0000

Nice shots. -25F is -32C, right? Where was that, north of the Arctic circle? By the way, did the cameras recover after being warmed up?

Great article, though!

Axel
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By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:41:33 +0000

Great shots, sixteenfeet!

On the subject of the failed cameras, were they allowed to acclimatize to the cold before shooting, or did they go straight from media lounge to freezing field?

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By: sixteenfeet

sixteenfeet — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:22:35 +0000

By the way, thanks for the compliments on the work.

By: sixteenfeet

sixteenfeet — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:22:22 +0000

Jaime, I have shot both systems over my career. I began with Canon, an AE-1 and moved to Nikon F3 and later added an FM2. When the AF era began, I stayed with Nikon and bought an N90 which was an awful camera. I went through several variations and was missing all kinds of pictures due to AF trouble so I switched to Canon. I shot Canon for about three years before our paper went digital. They supplied Nikon gear so I was back and am still back in the Nikon camp. When I bought a digital camera for my personal freelance work I bought a Canon EOS 5D for the full frame and high image quality. Nikon has now narrowed that gap so it really doesn’t matter what you shoot. I have a slight preference for Canon but no system is perfect.