Oooh, I bought a bunch from Twin Cities and am just storing them in a desk
drawer at ambient room temps. Maybe that is a lucky choice? Or maybe the TC
supply "deal" isn't such a deal afterall?
But am glad Louie is well. "You're lookin' sweel, Lou-ISSSSSSSSS, I can tell,
Lou-ISSSSSSSSS...."
Earl
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On 11/23/2004 at 8:40 PM hiwayman@xxxxxxx wrote:
>Louie wasn't sick after all. He was only suffering from dumb owner
>syndrome.
>
>I had a bunch of bad Bunny 357s! After two rolls of Kodachrome today, the
>champagne OM-4Ti locked up, wanting new batteries. Not a big surprise,
>since it's probably been close to two years since it had new ones. But
>new batteries didn't work. Battery check said "no, no." I tried two
>more. Same story.
>
>These were batteries I got a couple of years ago from Twin Cities and had
>stored in the fridge with the film. I took out a couple of strips of five
>when we went to Destin, Fla., back in September. Now, for some reason,
>they're all dead. Must be the Florida air. A couple from an equally-old
>strip of five right out of the fridge and warmed for 10 minutes or so in
>my pants pocket while I stomped around the house and raved and ranted
>about all things electronic solved the problem and the champagne one was
>happy once again.
>
>Then the little bulb above my head came on and I went to fetch Louie from
>the box I had plopped him in in anticipation of packing him up in order to
>send him off to John. New and GOOD batteries did the trick! He's back to
>his old self.
>
>These things apparently don't have much of a shelf life. Is it possible
>that refrigerating them might not be a good idea?
>
>Walt
>
>--
>"Anything more than 500 yards from
>the car just isn't photogenic." --
>Edward Weston
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