AstroPax
wrote:
....
Those environmental specifications are very conservative, and are what
they base the rated camera performance on.

... I can tell you that I've never had a problem with a 32 deg F rated
digital SLR, digital point and shoot, or a 35mm SLR in sub zero temps,
even when it was -20 F.

I just used my D100 on a trip where it was cold-soaked to well below 0 F
for hours on several days. I had no problems using the camera all day and
the battery always indicated fully charged. Some with small cameras
complained that they worked for only a few minutes before the battery went
dead.

Oh, I went
heli-skiing:

http://homepage.mac.com/saemisch/Can...s/thursday.jpg

Take that, Astro!

(More pics to come) 8J

Mike...

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