Too cold for photography

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I went out on a walk today and took my trusty Nikon F4 + 3 primes including the Nikon AF 85mm f1.8 lens.
All was well until I went to use the 85 the third time and it wouldn't auto focus properly. I switched to manual focus and the focus ring was binding at mid focus and tight at other distances.
At the time I was perplexed as to why it should suddenly do that.
Once home had a wee play about and as the lens warmed up in the house the focus freed up and is fine now.
Clearly time to strip the lens down give it a clean and lube, there are a couple of excellent vids on You Tube showing how to do it so once the lube grease arrives that will be my next job.
I've never had that happen before so one for the books.
 
I've heard of cold problems in Arctic and high altitude conditions but I'm a little surprised that it can get that cold here in the UK (even North of the wall!)

Good luck with the C&L.
 
Nod said:
I've heard of cold problems in Arctic and high altitude conditions but I'm a little surprised that it can get that cold here in the UK (even North of the wall!)

Good luck with the C&L.
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It wasn't that cold, about 2 or 3 Deg so I was surprised
 
I would try working it in manual a few times and call it fixed if auto works Ok now.
 
I used my kit yesterday @ minus 3 and it worked perfectly- Sony though not Nikon :)
 
I doubt it's cold, I've not experienced that down to very low temperatures in winter in the mountains.
 
Kiwi Paul said:
It wasn't that cold, about 2 or 3 Deg so I was surprised
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Hopefully the clean and lube will solve the problem.

On a trip to Iceland a few years back, I'm not sure the temperatures the camera was being used in was ever above freezing and even the old screw driven 50mm had no problems. Battery life was reduced though! (D750)
 
I've never had any problems with gear freezing up but I suppose if moisture gets in and it freezes it's possible. The coldest I've even been is -20 or so in Kazakhstan but I'm told that minus just a few degrees in europe feels as bad as we have a "wet cold" and as -20 there didn't feel a lot colder than winter in northern England I'm willing to believe that.
 
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