Which is better for Alberta winter..MP or M7 ?

Leica M2, Weston Master V in inside pocket, plastic bag to put the camera in when coming inside (condensation). -40 C no problem. Watch out for metal sticking to skin.
 
Thank you all so much for your inputs. They are highly appreciated. Each of you has provided very valid recommendations and this makes my choice
more difficult.

grateful for your advice.
 
If you want the M7, don't hesitate to get it. I shot all of last winter with one in Winnipeg. No problem. No change in performance. Batteries not an issue, especially if you carry spares.

The secret is not to cold soak the camera. Dress in layers--say a fleece sweater under your coat--and when not shooting keep the camera between the outer layer and the next.
 
Zen-shooter said:
Other factor to consider when shooting in cold weather is condensation on the inner lens surface. It's been my experience when the camera is brought back into a warm building from a day of cold weather shooting, the lens surface could condense and leave watermark...
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When driving home from my cold shooting, I kept the M7 on the car seat beside me and the heat going (as always). The body, which never got that cold because I didn't cold soak it, was given sufficient dry heat (no humidity in a car in winter) to avoid condensation when I got home.
 
It's me again. I shot both with the MP and M7 in winter. One advantage the M7 has over the MP: the shutter speed dial is far easier to manipulate with gloved on. Single-digit rotating with gloves on was no problem on the M7, awkward at best on the MP.
 
J J, thanks for your tips. Could you pls tell me what you mean by ' cold soak ' the camera.

Regards.

J J Kapsberger said:
It's me again. I shot both with the MP and M7 in winter. One advantage the M7 has over the MP: the shutter speed dial is far easier to manipulate with gloved on. Single-digit rotating with gloves on was no problem on the M7, awkward at best on the MP.
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Immerse the camera in the cold so completely that it gets cold through and through. Don't want to do that, lest you get condensation on the inside when you go back indoors.
 
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Gonna do it...

Gonna do it...

My cold weather kit will be:
M5 x 2
Canon VI-T
Luna-Pro SBC & Weston Master V backup
Pocket full of PX625 mercury cells
Fingerless gloves with mitten flaps. I already have them. Warm beats looking cool every time. :D
Thin synthetic gloves under the heavy fingerless gloves
Synthetic underwear. Fleece. Gore Wind Stopper fleece. Down. Gore-Tex shell. Wool for feet, hands, head.
Worked in Kazakstan. I reckon it will work in the Great White North!
 
I have no idea if the camera & lenses were ever used again, but a Nikon F and a lens or 3 went up the backside of Everest to the summit and down the other side. There's a book somewhere proving that the camera and lenses worked. Personally, I think cameras stand up to dry cold much better than soggy heat. Come to think of it, I work better in dry cold than soggy heat.
 
I own a contax g2 and I never had cold or hot temperature problem here in north Italy! but i'll suggest you a m6 or (if money is not a problem)mp
 
10F (not wind chill) here today on my hike with M7 and Motor M. Both performed flawlessly as they usually do in these conditions. Was -21F a week ago but I'm not much for hiking in that weather anymore! Was using 21mm ASPH at f5.6 with K64 so all I had to do was set the infinity mark at 5.6 and then only look through the 21mm finder and press the shutter with no fumbling of shutter dial or f stop adjustment, winding of course was taken care of but the Motor M. Frankly I don't know of a better cold weather combination..-Dick
 
I've shot both M7's & MP's in very cold- I've actually had no more battery drain with either camera- and both have had batteries kick out due to cold. I've worked in very cold a lot- so cold that a Nikon F100 had the LCD screen freeze- and find both M7's and MP's excellent cold weather performers. I agree with JJ- the M7 is easier to use with heavier gloves on, as is the M5 for that matter.
 
The fear of cold (- 40 F) or heat (130 F) is highly exaggerated when it comes to cameras and batteries.

It is normally the human body that cries uncle and dies well before the camera or its battery. So, take whatever camera you have or want to buy and enjoy the heat or cold as you dare, and do dress well for the weather.
 
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