Thanks for the report.
Chuck Norcutt
Johnny Johnson wrote:
> At 11:13 PM 9/10/2007, Bill Pearce wrote:
>
>> I tried this quite some time ago, and used a hearing aid battery. I think
>> the number was 675, but that may be useless information. Recently, I was
>> getting batteries for my father's hearing aids, and noticed that the numbers
>> were all different.
>>
>> I didn't note any remarkable errors, but I generally don't shoot chrome
>> film.
>
> Piers was generous enough to offer to send his last "old stock"
> battery to me and it should be here next week. In the meantime I
> remembered seeing an unopened package of hearing aid batteries in the
> battery cup in the freezer. As I have no other reason for purchasing
> them I decided that it must have been to try in an OM-1 so I
> installed one yesterday. It's the #13 size, measures at 1.35 volts,
> and is thick enough to work in my OM-1 without a thickness
> spacer. In checking the meter against a Canon 5D they read within a
> 1/3 - 1/2 stop of each other at f4, f8, and f16 while metering off of
> a gray card. I'm going to leave the meter circuit on for 24/7 and
> check things periodically to see how long the battery lasts and how
> accurate the readings remain. I believe that the battery Piers is
> sending is a better long term solution but the HA batteries will
> probably work in a pinch.
>
> Later,
> Johnny
>
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