Hi Piers:
40 below is 40 below
as I sense
you already know
the OM 3 will be on its way
as no other bidders have woken this day!
Cheroooo!
Gord
----- Original Message -----
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 10:32 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Camera Bags
>
> Yo Gord, my man. Have you been outbid on that "OM-3" yet? I sure hope
so,
> I wouldn't want to see it on the examination table ;-)
>
> Now I am tempted to ask whether your 40 below is Celsius or Fahrenheit,
but
> I won't, because I don't think it would be gentlemanly. Instead, I will
> mention that at such temperatures, use of a metal bodied camera in
ungloved
> hands is to be preferred - - - because you avoid the risk of dropping it
> when you have to run from the polar bear you didn't spot in the snowdrift.
>
> Chin chin!
>
> Piers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Gordon J. Ross
> Sent: 02 February 2004 16:44
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: Camera Bags
>
>
> Hi Piers:-)
>
> Nice work Watson. But if one gains most of their heat in a cold
environment
> from the digestion of prey, camouflage allows you to get closer to your
> prey, so not to be ruled out lightly. If the white thing was that
> temperature driven, where were the seals when they gave the thermal color
> class? Penguins must have skipped some classes (more black than white) and
> as your point out yourself, my dear Watson, "A light coloured bag will
> provide better heat insulation (keeping heat in, as well as keeping heat
> out) than a dark bag." So if I was a polar bear I'd want to absorb heat
and
> be dark, but I'd want to eat so I would want to look like the surroundings
> so I'd be white, the dilemma is angering, which may explain their
> temperment. Should you choose to research this further, you should know
what
> Polar Bears call photographers--- "food"!
> As for the color of a bag, the thermal properties of material and
thickness
> would have greater effect than exterior color, all of which become fairly
> irrelavent the longer the exposure, (40 below gets in your bag sooner or
> later), and there is the rude fact that if you are going to use your
camera
> you have to take it out of the bag. I'd leave you with that deduction
> Watson and I'd like to thank Gord for the use of his computer.
>
> Sherlock
>
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