New Canonet QL17

Yeah, i made a point of doing that.

I`ve no idea how old the original battery is. Be interesting to see how long it lasts.

I`m not much good at guessing light levels, so i bought the spare.
 
farce said:
what batteries are you guys using?
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I'm using the "wrong" plain-jane 625 in both of my GIIIs.

One of my dad's rules of photography, one that I do agree with, is that the light meter is giving you a suggestion as to exposure, and not a mandate to use what it says. You should use your eyes and brain along with the light meter!

On the black GIII, I'm using the 625 as-is. As would be expected, the meter is a wee bit "hotter" and therefore tends to underexpose a wee bit on the bright end of the scale. It's still well within a stop of my "laboratory standard" camera. :) :)

On the chrome GIII, I recalibrated it so I can use 1600 film, and in the process of doing this, it was also recalibrated for the currently-available off-the-shelf 625.

Both of the GIIIs give very close exposures, even with slide film, which as you know, can't take a joke as far as exposure is concerned. :)

The only battery problem I've had recently is a dead battery, and when it died, it died fast and hard! It was working normally one afternoon last October, battery check light good, and good Kodachromes from the session. Early evening it died! No meter movement, no battery check light, and failed the taste test. The problem that night was that I couldn't find a 625 anywhere. Two Walgreens and one CVS did not have them. It was Sunday evening and no real camera places were open in the area. I had to shoot that evening using only the carbon-based light meter which I've carried with me for more years than I care to admit. :) I ended up having a roll of Sensia cross-processed in C41 in order to leverage some latitude there!
 
Thanks guys for the battery information. I'll check out the wien battery,
and see if my local walgreens has the hearing aid battery,
-Francis
 
The 675 hearing aid batteries are readily available and cheap. I'm using them now. I've found I need to use a washer between the + side of the battery and the contact to take up some space and provide good electrical contact. I actually don't know what exact size washer I'm using; I took the camera to our hardware racks at work and tried likely looking sizes till I got one that fit.
 
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