Last December, I joined a group of photographers on a trip to Inner Mongolia to shoot the winter landscape. The location was Bashang, about 300km north of Beijing. This is the grassland region, except in winter the temperature can drop to as low as -35 C! Fortunately, the lowest temperature we experienced was only -25 C. My breath iced up my glasses and the M240 LCD! But the M240 kept working, except for one lock-up towards the end-of a session. However, the M8 did not fare well. It could not trigger after 20 minutes despite indicating a full charge. The lenses I brought along included the WATE, 21mm Elmarit-Asph, 28mm 'Cron Asph, 35mm 'Lux Asph, 90AA and the 35-70mm VE and 180 Apo-Elmarit-R and a Gitzo traveller tripod. The last two lenses were converted back to their original R mounts from leitax alpha mounts. I changed from the DMR to the Sony A850 about 4 years ago. The 850 served me well, but with the M240 I can now used these R lenses, but in some circumstances not the best solution. This has been a most interesting and certainly the coldest trip I have ever taken. But the winter landscape is fascinating and I must here thank Xing Asia for organizing such a trip.
Here are some photos from this trip,
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Here are some photos from this trip,
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More to follow.