You should be able to use Silver Oxide or Lithium replacements directly
in your Spotmatic, (get a rubber O ring that just fits around the
battery to make a relatively tight fit.. However if you really want the
correct voltage, or close anyway, you can use Zinc (Wein) cells, these
are often available in multi packs as hearing aid batteries. There is a
third solution, there is a company making/selling an adapter that cuts
the 1.5 volt output of modern batteries down to the 3.5 volt mercury
output. A search of the Internet should turn them up. I believe they
just screw into the camera where the battery cover fits, a bit pricey if
I remember correctly.
Ian MUNRO wrote:
I'm new to this group, and have a query, if i may.
Short story: My old ME "died" (Mirror keeps jamming, nad the cost
of a total pverhaul is in the order of $300,) so I thought I'd try
my luck on E - bay, and see if I could get another camera. Put bids
on several units, and have ended up with a P30, (with owners
manual,) and a Spotmatic, (without manual).
Would like to try them out for a while, and see which one I like
best. to do that i need batteries for them. the P30 was no
problem, but the spotmatic is proving difficult
Have looked up the user "on line" manual for the Spotmatic, which is
how I found this group, via a "google" search. The manual mentions
a 400 R battery. So far I've been unable to find what the current
equivalent is. Would someone be able to advise me what sort of
battery I'm looking for, please.
Ian MUNRO
Norlane, Victoria
Australia.
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