I'll second this based on my very limited experience. I put a pair of
Maxell batteries into the 4T I just acquired. Worked fine for 1 roll
+ 22 pix then refused to work - in the middle of an exposure. My
battery tester shows they're only a bit reduced in function.
And yeah, I'll be keeping at least a pair of spares in the case.
FWIW/ScottGee1
On Apr 7, 2005 7:41 AM, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jon,
>
> Since no one else seems willing to express an opinion, despite my
> grandmother's admonition that fools rush in where angels fear to tread, I'll
> offer a hypothesis, and an optimistic one at that. Being the master of a
> half dozen OM-4s, I feel at least minimally qualified to hazard a guess, so
> here it is:
>
> You may just have a couple of batteries whose oomph, while sufficient to
> please the less demanding OM-10 and OM-2, is yet insufficient to awaken the
> loggerheaded OM-4, it and its ilk being notoriously persnickety about their
> batteries. I bet, and for your sake hope, that a shiny set of new 357s will
> bring it to life.
>
> Or maybe not. Anyway, good luck.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Jon Mitchell" <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > To cut a long story short (oops, too late !), I tried the batteries from
> > my OM-10 in the OM-4. Nothing. These batteries power up both my OM-10
> > and OM-2n fine, but the OM-4 stubbornly refuses to respond.
> >
> [snip]
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