Alkaline battery should cause a 3 stop error.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel J. Mitchell" <DanielMitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Olympus List'" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 3:22 PM
Subject: [OM] OM-1N, metering way off
> I just picked up two black-body OM1s; one OM1MD, one OM1N. Both with flash
> shoe; OM1N has motor drive cap, _box_, foam, manual, strap still in bag..
>
> Both in really nice shape; use marks, very minimal brassing I can see..
> CDN$125 for each.
>
> Now, the OM1MD works fine -- set it to ISO 100, point it at a sunny day,
> f16, and it wants to be at 1/125th, which is what I'd expect (I think?).
>
> The OM1N, though, is a lot less happy. The meter is alive, but unless I
> point it at darkness, the needle is way off into the + section. Even
setting
> the film to 25 and the shutter speed to 1/1000, it's still at +; if I put
my
> hand in front of the lens, the needle moves, but..
>
> My first thought was that it might be the wrong sort of battery; they say
> "PX 625A Alkaline" on them, which suggests they're not the old mercury
ones
> -- but the weird thing is that the OM1MD seems to be working fine. Should
I
> expect the metering to be _this_ far off because of the wrong battery? Is
> there some other more obvious thing I'm doing wrong here?
>
> thanks,
>
> -- dan
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