what I do
what I do
Frank,
For my canonet, I cut a ~1.5" cardboard strip from a fuji multipack cardboard box, about the width of the new battery to be used, and wrap it around so it's roughly the same size as the original, then for width, and good contact, I put a tad of wadded tin foil on the neg side, which ads pressure to the pos side too for good contact.
The downside is that this has to be done for each battery install to be snug and all. However, those commercial adapters cost more than the canonet. You could also just cram some foil and cardboard around a modern small battery, but that could be sketchy and move around at the wrong time.
This camera had the meter adj. by G'man to work with alkaline 1.5v, and it does match my other cameras that can do averaging.
My other camera that takes old batteries I just got, a GSN, and supposedly it does fine with modern 6V supplies with the proper cardboard or other mechanical supports.
When testing meters, be sure the field of view is equal to your comparison, and you test all EV ranges, as some methods aren't linear and only match lower or higher EV ranges.
FrankS said:
Has anyone got one or 2 of these lying around? Could use them. I've got this nice Lunasix 3 lightmeter that uses PX13 batteries.
Do you have any mercury powered items? What do you do? Hearing aid batteries? Adaptors? Modern cells?
