[rollei_list] Re: OT: Lightmeter
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 11:19:53 -0400
At 10:58 AM 5/13/2013, Allan Derickson wrote:
>I have the same little Sekonic but my most accurate meter is my old Gossen
>Super Pilot. It's on my last set of the now banned mercury batteries,
>however, that I got from Canada several years ago. When they finally die
>I'll look for something newer.
First, mercury batteries were not 'banned' as
such. The US government required that an
exchange policy be set up so that the exhausted
batteries could be properly processed, and the
camera industry, seeing a niche for new sales,
refused to set up such a program. I cleaned out
a bunch of troves of mercury batteries at that
time and still have a few around.
Second, Gossen meters work well with alkaline or
silver cells as they have compensating circuitry
to accommodate the differing voltages and
fall-off rates. Most European camera gear have
such circuits, and most Japanese gear does not,
so you have to be careful about using alkaline cells on Oriental cameras.
Third, Gossen markets an adapter to accommodate
silver cells in its mercury-battery
lightmeters. Try Bogen part number 4145 in the
US. Radio Shack can find you a replacement
silver cell when the original one wears down.
Marc
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