Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:41 AM 2/5/97 -0500, Ed Meyers wrote: >My experience is that you must check the meter carefully, as >the CdS cell may not be up to snuff. Use the meter check. Also, >be aware that it was designed for the PX-13 and 625 mercury >batteries which are no longer made. The Wien "air" battery >works, but for about 1/4 the usual two years I'm used to. Mine worked well on a PX76 silver-oxide cell. I still owned the camera when the first words of the impending death of the mercury cell came out, so I tried mine on a '76 for more than a year. Closer than 1/3 stop accuracy, so I suspect there is an internal regulator in the circuitry. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!