The meter design in Pentax cameras was very voltage tolerant. I believe that you can use a silver oxide battery and get accurate meter readings.
Jens Bladt wrote: > A Danish guy, whom I never met or spoke with, called me today. He has a > Spotmatic SP + a Super Takumar 50mm lens and two Soligor lenses as > well )wide angle nd 250mm, which he wants to find a good home for. > I know very little about screw mount , so I thought I'd ask you guys :-) > This guy said the meter is off. But I guess maybe the battery is just be > dead. This was mercury PX-400 right. What's the best replacement - Wein > Cell? Or is there an adapter kit available? > > I shall later be posting a photograph of the camera - it's not like new - > the guy traveled the world with it - but there are no dents etc. > > Regtards > Jens Bladt > > http://www.jensbladt.dk > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/761 - Release Date: 04/14/2007 > 21:36 > > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
