doubt ¿minister-d or minister III? ¿battery problem?

[astrobola]

Hi. Now that my oly XA1 is sick, and my OM10 burns 5 batteries/month, i'm thinking to buy a new camera.
I like the yashica minister-d, it looks really pretty and i like the manual control with the EV ring, but it uses this ugly and unavailable mercury batteries. The minister-III, on the other hand, have a selenium meter.
Somebody with a minister-D can tell me how it performs with the new batteries? Is it really a problem? And how performs the battery-free minister-III?
My other option is the olympus 35SP, with the same issue...
Thanks in advance!

 

[Dean C Williams]

My Minister D works perfectly well with a modern 625A battery. Nice cameras.
Here are a few samples from mine.

DW

 

[pixman]

The Minister 111 is a fine camera. If the selenium meter is working properly you will have no problems.

 

[bsdunek]

The Minister 111 is a fine camera. If the selenium meter is working properly you will have no problems.

I concur. My Minister III has a perfectly working selenium meter. See:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=77422
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=77420
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=77421
just for examples.