At 06:29 PM 10/12/2000 -0700, Nick Taylor wrote:
>The OM-1 is the preferred camera for amateur film astrophotography, and
>I've been using my OM-1n for prime focus and eyepiece projection pictures
>very happily. I recently decided that I really needed to start using
>this pretty baby for terrestrial photos as well and bought a 50mm f/1.4
>... and then realized that the original mercury cell isn't available
>any longer in the U.S. I'd really like to be able to use the OM-1n's
>light meter, but I'm at a loss here. I've heard that the camera can be
>modified for silver oxide batteries ... how much does that cost, and
>where is the best place to have it done? This is a lovely little
>camera, and I sure don't want to have it butchered! Or are there
>possibly some other solutions ... short of using an external light
>meter?
Nick:
John Hermanson (a longtime member of this List, and a factory-trained Oly
technician), does this mod. You can check out the particulars on his Website:
www.zuiko.com
Otherwise, you can also buy an MR-9 battery adapter from C.R.I.S. Camera
Services, at:
www.criscam.com, and
http://www.criscam.com/mr9b.htm (the actual page for the MR-9 adapter).
Good luck.
Garth
"A bad day doing photography is better
than a good day doing just about
anything else."
The Unofficial Olympus Web Photo Gallery at:
http://www.taiga.ca/~gallery/, or
http://www.enable.org/~gallery/
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