Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Gary Williams wrote: Alas I must take my newly aquired M5 on a trip and there is no time to get the meter calibrated for alkaline batteries. (I will not use an M meter on it either). What kind of exposure compensation should I expect to have to use? Or is it more complicated than that? I think it is a bit more complicated than that. I am assuming this camera took the late, lamented mercury batteries. There are several things you can do. First, a company named Wein makes a zinc/air battery, that is the correct voltage. But after you activate them they last only a few months. Or there is a company that makes an adapter that fits in the camera, and adjusts the voltage of the silver battery. Check the lug archives and google for both. As for the zinc/air battery, I have seen them at Penn camera in the Washington, DC area, and they could probably ship you one. ============================================================================ Ken Firestone, W3CAT | For every problem there is one solution kenf@speakeasy.net | which is simple, neat, and wrong. ken@firestone.net | -- H. L. Mencken ============================================================================ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html