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Posted by Mike Fields on 01/12/07 03:21
"PTravel" <ptravel@travelersvideo.com> wrote in message
news:50ocb0F1havcuU1@mid.individual.net...
> Tomorrow, I am going to Harbin, China to view the winter Ice Festival.
> Temperatures in Harbin during the are around -14 Celsius. At night
> (when the ice sculptures are lit up), temperatures go as low as -25
> Celsius. I've got my VX2000 with me, but gave no thought to the
> temperature when I packed for this trip (Harbin is but one stop along
> the way). The camera has a minimum operating temperature of 0
> Celsuis.
>
> Any ideas on how I can get away with videotaping the Ice Festival? I
> suppose, if it came to it, I could keep the camera under my coat and
> take it out for shots, but that would be inconvenient (and would make
> me very cold). I've got my camera rain cape with me, but it's an Ewa
> Marine vinyl cape and would offer no cold protection, though it would
> keep the wind off. Would wrapping the camera with towes under the
> rain cape help?
>
> Any practical suggestions (trying to locate an electric camera blanket
> in the middle of rural China is not practical, even if I could afford
> to buy one) would be welcome -- I've come too far to miss this great
> travel videography opportunity.
>
Hey PT -- just come to Seattle -- 21 F outside right now, supposed to
go to 10 or so tonight. Great opportunities for video watching the
traffic
on the highways and byways where the snow melted and turned back
to sheets of ice today !!
Seriously, sort of off the wall, but one thing that comes to mind
is a thermal blanket "jacket" made for the camera to protect it
from the cold, and if you can find them (or take them with you
in checked luggage) are those chemical hand warmer packets
that are good for 6 or 8 hours stuffed in a pocket inside the
camera jacket (I think they are iron oxide based if I remember
correctly). We use them on the humming bird feeder (several
winter over around here) to keep it from freezing during the day
with a double sock over it for insulation. Actually works fairly
well - even if not particularly "high tech" :-)
Down near the bottom of this page are my latest humming bird
pix shot when it was about 20 degrees F outside.
http://home.comcast.net/~mr.gadget2/
mikey
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