Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John writes: > 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). << Big Snip >> Hi John, I looked for someone's answer to your question and did not see one, so: the XG-1 takes 1.5 volt silver-oxide batteries. The alkaline bateries you put in it will go downhill very rapidly and will soon be giving you bad meter readings. Change to silver-oxide batteries and you will have a fine manual focusing camera with the same exposure capabilities as the newest Leica M7, plus the capability to do macro work without a Visoflex. Enjoy your $5 camera. Regards, Paul Connet - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html