Panasonic Lumix LX-100 expedition camera
Below you can read the transcript of the video recorded by Henk-Jan Geel about the expedition materials.
‘In this video I’m going to talk about the camera I take with me on arctic expeditions, this is it.
It is a panasonic lx100 camera and there are a few things I want to tell you about this.
First of all I put the camera in a case which just protects it from the elements, but what I think is more important is that a camera can be operated with gloves on.
The cover is easily detached this way and then I flap this thingy forward.
The on-off switch that’s here.
I can operate those with gloves on, and the shutter button I can also operate with gloves on.
So that’s what I think is important about a camera.
What else did I add myself.
Well I noticed that the cover was occasionally coming off at the bottom and I put a string on it so that this part of the cover didn’t get caught in the snow and furthermore if you have the camera and it has been outside all day and you take it into the tent make sure that the camera and doesn’t get into a warm environment all at once because then it condenses both on the camera and in the camera.
So keep that in mind: that you warm up your camera slowly.
You can do this, for example, by putting the camera in a plastic bag.
Put that plastic bag down in the tent or put it down in a cabin and then it acclimates your camera slowly but surely and then it slowly but surely warms up and then it doesn’t fog up in the camera, because that’s super annoying when you have moisture in the camera, the camera you then take outside, it’s minus 20 and stuff freezes in your camera.
Another thing about batteries: a camera’s battery.
I always take 3 batteries with me.
One is in the camera, one is in my my pocket and one is in the tent bag of my sled.
And experience shows that batteries, if you buy good original battery, they can last quite a few days to a week.’

Henk-Jan on the ice cap of Greenland
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