Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] slightly on-topic?
From: Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:25:53 -0700 (PDT)

John Black <jblack@ambio.net> wrote:

> 
> LUGers:
> 
> Over the weekend, I purchased a $5 US camera at an antique 
> shop locally.
> It turned out to be a Minolta XG1 with 50/2.0 lens. The 
> batteries were shot so I replaced them with what I thought 
> was a good match for the originals and it works fine (even 
> meters well). My question is, the batteries that were
> in it were Union Carbide "LPX76" (I think) with no voltage on 
> the outside.

John Black scores!  These batteries are standard 1.5 volt '76' silver cells.  No mercury.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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