Last time I looked, a year ago or so, my Yashicamat meter was just fine. Does the deterioration depend on how much light exposure it receives? Would one last much longer if usually cased and in a bag and/or closet?
Stan > From: Frantisek Vlcek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 11:39:43 +0100 > To: Amita Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: way OT: does Adorama repair TLRs? > > Sunday, November 25, 2001, 11:34:38 PM, Amita wrote: > AG> I have to go to Adorama tomorrow to get my 120 > AG> film developed. Might there be a chance that they > AG> could fix the light meter in my Yashicamat? > > Well, I don't know about Adorama, but I know few things about > Yashica(mats), they use selenium meter and very big percentage of all > selenium metered cameras have nonworking meters by now, or at least > unreliable. Most selenium meters are aged and became unreliable - > nonlinear (not that they were much linear at the start<g>). So even if > it is fixable, it might not be useful much except in bright light, > where you can use f/16 rule anyway, or an external meter. The very few > selenium meters that _are_ linear and reliable even after 30 years of > use is probably only the L398 incident meter... it works even where > other selenium meters don't. I don't know how they did it but it works > :) > > But of course, this is my opinion, you might want to have the meter > working for whatever reasons. > > Frantisek > - - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
