seems like a perfect solution. would this work with any camera that requires the mercury battery 1.35v? Like my Sears | 35RF aka Richo 500g
Essentially, the SRT's meter sees a mercury battery and it drops from there as usual. Not sure what the battery test cutoff is but it too will respond as if a mercury battery is installed.
Do you mean "Who needs a reasonably accurate meter"? You sure don't if you only shoot with the sun behind you.
seems like a perfect solution. would this work with any camera that requires the mercury battery 1.35v? Like my Sears | 35RF aka Richo 500g
It is perfect in that it is super cheap and the diodes are so tiny it should have no issues fitting in most any such application. If the meter works correctly with the mercury battery then it should work with the conversion.
what could be better than that. cheap, easy to do at home, invisible, permanent. I wish all my problems were this easy to solve.
Depending on the tolerance of your workflow, Kodak Portrs 400 can take a huge amount of overexposure and about -3 of underexposure.
As opposed to calibrating and then installing the diode? Thats the only thing that would make sense unless it had already been recalibrated with the 1.5v without the diode.
You have to eat instant ramen because fresh ramen is quite expensive.The SRT Super arrived today as described. Whew. All the way from Japan. Paid too much should have been more patient. Have to eat ramen noodles for a while but oh well.
Everything is working only thing is the lens wiggles a bit. Not sure why.
I would say the FT3 has more accurate meter and doesn't need mercury battery.
lens wiggles a bit.
A black Super. Very pretty.
Where does it "wiggle", and how much? Are you talking about at the lens mount? Since you have other Minolta lenses, do they wiggle on the SUPER too? Check the screws on the back of the lens and the camera lens mount, as has been suggested, but I suspect they are fine. A tiny wiggle is OK, as long as you hear the lens CLICK when you attach it.
all my Minolta AI lenses also
Are you referring to Minolta Maxxum a-mount lenses?
I have lots of Minolta Rokkor lenses and they all can be wiggled about 1mm left-right after they attach. That's not a problem, the lens is attached to the camera at the correct distance from the film. The MC coupler on the lens should just barely touch the MC lug on the camera when it is attached.
If the wiggle is forward and backward as opposed to side to side THEN you have a problem.
Since I'm not there, I can't really say what "sloppy" is, other than if the lens doesn't move forward and back at all, and as long as the tab on the camera is barely touching the lug on the camera (when the f-stop ring is at is widest setting), you don't have a problem. I have lenses that don't have much resistance, and only a couple that are a little tight. It's the ones that are tight that I wonder about.
Does the MC lug on the camera rotate OK and have a good spring when no lens is attached? If so, Fuhgeddaboudit. As long as you here the CLICK, you know the lens won't fall off.
Right I found the Canon EF, Canonet QL17 GIII, the Olympus 35-RC work fine with alkaline batteries. The SRT-101's don't so I don't use the meter in the SRT.
I just ran a simple test again. I did it a LONG time ago, so this was just verification. I installed a mercury 625 battery 1.35v in my SRT102 (I have a pocket solar recharger) and read a gray card in the sun, and matched up the needle in the viewfinder. I then inserted an alkaline 625A 1.55v in the camera. The needle didn't move -- exact same reading.
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