Bought an old camera w/ a working meter.....battery included!

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My old camera arrived today, complete w/ the first correct mercury battery I have ever seen. The seller had the battery in their freezer for years. It's still pretty accurate :}

 

[Paul Howell]

Should last a couple of years. Nice Leica, have a lens for it.

 

[wiltw]

Wow, a new working PX625!
When that dies, you can use an MR-9 adapter that takes a 386 1.55V silver oxide battery and adapts it both physically and the output voltage, to reduce 1.55V to the needed constant 1.35V.

Beware!...On eBay, there are now phony 'MR-9' that do not do any voltage conversion, but rely upon 1.35V Zinc Air batteries that deplete themselves as soon as you peel off the sticker, even if the camera is unused and turned off! Carefully read the text description to make sure you are reading about MR-9 that does voltage conversion, before you place any order

Buy the MR-9 while the PX625 is still functioning, to double check that the MR-9 convertor is doing the proper job and resulting in 'same reading' as with PX-625. I have an original MR-9 from US seller CRIS, purchased literally decades ago, and thought I would have a second one in hand, so I ordered this recently., at a considerable savings from CRIS current price....
https://www.ebay.com/itm/130646083632

Nice looking Leicaflex, BTW!

 

[gone]

Thanks for the battery info. I've never liked the Wein cell batteries because they run down so quickly, and this camera has no ON and OFF meter switch. I like my old 'flex w/ its bad meter better. That one set in someone's closet for many years, and the battery leaked inside it's compartment so badly I had to chisel a slot in the battery cover and use a big screwdriver to get it off. Because it hadn't been used much, that one feels like almost like new. It shows very little wear on it's strap lugs.

The odd thing about the meter on this camera is it doesn't seem to recognize blue skies. It agreed almost exactly w/ my N70, even inside, but while the Nikon swung over to 1/3200 when pointed at noon Az sky, the Leicaflex meter stayed stolidly where it was when pointed at the horizon.

 

[Huss]

The odd thing about the meter on this camera is it doesn't seem to recognize blue skies. It agreed almost exactly w/ my N70, even inside, but while the Nikon swung over to 1/3200 when pointed at noon Az sky, the Leicaflex meter stayed stolidly where it was when pointed at the horizon.

That's because Leicas are meant for capturing The Decisive Moment. That never happens pointed up to the sky.

(cough Hindenburg cough cough)

 

[CMoore]

My old camera arrived today, complete w/ the first correct mercury battery I have ever seen. The seller had the battery in their freezer for years. It's still pretty accurate :}

Wow.........what year is this.?
That is not your everyday event.

 

[Paul Howell]

A 64 Leicaflex Standard, as I understand it, was only in production for a couple of years, at one time I had yearn for a Leicaflex would really like a R8 or 9.

 

[wiltw]

A 64 Leicaflex Standard, as I understand it, was only in production for a couple of years, at one time I had yearn for a Leicaflex would really like a R8 or 9.

It was much too expensive to manufacture, and in 1964-68, its non-TTL meter was well behind the contemporary Japanese TTL SLRs, leading to Leica abandoining the Leicaflex Standard for the Leicaflex SL with TTL metering.