Hi. Welcome. I'm usually a lurker, but I help you with this one. I use Spotmatics a lot. I'll assume that you have an original Spotmatic, not a Spotmatic F. (Spotmatic F are clearly marked Spotmatic F on the top plate.)
The original Spotmatic battery was the VX400, a mercury battery that was discontinued 5 or 10 years ago for environmental reasons. The most common replacement is made by a company called Wein, and is a modified hearing aid battery. They show up regularly on EBay and can be ordered from most major camera shops online. The work but don't last very long. A better bet is the S400PX, a silver oxide battery. It's pretty hard to find, but I was able to special order some via the Canadian Radio Shack equivalent recently. There are a number of workarounds involving adaptations of silver oxide button cells. For information on those, you should check out the Yahoo Spotmatic group. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Spotmatic/ There's good info in that group's Files section. It's a good group, although not particularly active these days. Cheers John Poirier > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > John E. Brandt > Sent: July 29, 2008 8:13 PM > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: Newbie - Quest about batteries > > > Greetings, > > I just joined this list and wonder if anyone knows where one can acquire a > battery/batteries for a vintage Spotmatic. I just purchased the camera on > eBay and it came without a battery. So I don't even know where to > start. My > local camera store told me they are "very hard to find." Not sure what the > number is or anything. > > Suggestions welcome. > > ~j > > John E. Brandt > Augusta, Maine USA > www.jebswebs.com > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
