Thought there might be a problem getting batteries for my AV-1s so I went mail order. Next day saw the same thing in the local Boots.
It's usually the older cameras designed for 1.35v mercury batteries that have problems.
Is the voltage from modern equivalents that stable? Do you set Tri-X at 160asa and treat everything else as normal?I do it all the time.The 0.156 V results in 1.5 stops siff; so setting the ASA 2 stopped down works wonders in all my old cameras
I do it all the time.The 0.156 V results in 1.5 stops siff; so setting the ASA 2 stopped down works wonders in all my old cameras
Is the voltage from modern equivalents that stable?
"With the latitude of film, old cameras with used irises and meters, developing, scanning, adjusting digital or wet printing, adjusting in Photoshop, small errors in not metering absolutely to a Kodak grey card and so on and so on....... compensates for a 0.15 v difference in possible errors".
Alkaline cells have an undesirable slope to their voltage output over time, which may affect the accuracy of the metered/adjusted reading in a fairly unpredictable way, .
Is the voltage from modern equivalents that stable? Do you set Tri-X at 160asa and treat everything else as normal?
My Nikkormats all have button mercury cells, some working, others dead but I don't know their modern equivalents or exactly how to calibrate the difference.I have been using it in my CL. The only thing that stands between me and a good shot is me
My Nikkormats all have button mercury cells, some working, others dead but I don't know their modern equivalents or exactly how to calibrate the difference.
My Nikkormats all have button mercury cells, some working, others dead but I don't know their modern equivalents or exactly how to calibrate the difference.
I ordered some PX625As from them this very afternoon
Cheers Yardbent, just bough 4 x LR44s & stuck them together as 4LR44s (what I wanted) didn't jump out at me. Was going to have a trawl around, for a 'spare' but this has saved me the bother.
not sure what you have done here..or wanted to achieve
the 4SR44 code number is for one Silver Oxide 6.2V battery
the LR44 is a 1.5V button battery
It's a fairly well known bodge for the yashica electro 35's - a stack of 4 the LR44's with a spring and a cardboard tube :shrug:
god, i have entered the Dark Ages
but I found a book today called "The Dictionary of Photography"
17th reprint in 1952[!]...full of weird and wonderful things about early film and mixing chemicals...the DIY darkrooms were a hoot
Just google Caffenol.... Develop your film in strong coffee, vitamin C and Washing Soda