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Subject: [Leica] Alkaline vs Silver 625 replacement batteries I have real ones...
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Wed Apr 6 21:45:53 2005

I have some new old stock early this century German Vartas...

> John,
> See this from Bob Decker (the doyen of Nikon F & F2 meter repairers):
> http://hometown.aol.com/drwyn/myhomepage/webdoc4.htm
> Cheers
> Jayanand Govindaraj
> Chennai, India
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John O. Newell" <john.o.newell@comcast.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:32 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Alkaline vs Silver 625 replacement batteries
> 
> 
>> This is probably a dumb question; in fact, I hope it is, but I'm cautious
>> about making assumptions.  I'm wondering whether anyone has had, or can
>> think of, any issues in using a silver 625 cell in a camera that
>> originally used a mercury 625 cell but has been recalibrated for an
>> alkaline 625  cell.  This would be a change from 1.5v nominal to 1.55v
>> nominal, which seems like it would be a difference so small that it would
>> be easily lost in the noise (examples: didn't precisely center needle;
>> didn't pick precisely correct area to meter) or at least would be well
>> within the latitude of even color reversal film.  Yes/no/maybe?
>> Also, I'm assuming...but interested in confirmation...that there are no
>> physical differences between the alkaline and silver oxide dimensions?  I
>> have read of users with problems using the CRIS adapters.
>> Many thanks for any info
>> John Newell
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