What's the Story with Rollie 35SE Battery?

[mel]

So I just received the 35SE all excited to use and the mercury battery is illegal (for good reason).

What is the solution? I googled the issue and apparently an adaptor can be obtained to use the PX76 battery in the 35S. Is that the same solution in the SE?

What have others done? Any illumination would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[zigzhang]

If using adapters is not your thing, you should probably take a look at weincells. http://www.weincell.com/

 

[Mablo]

Any competent camera tech can convert the Rollei 35 to use a normal 1.5V LR9 cell.

 

[John Lawrence]

When I had my little Rolleis, I just went with the adapters and had no problems with them at all.

John

 

[Sonnar Brian]

I have the Rollei 35TE, which uses the same PX-27. I took the cells out of the tube and replaced them with four AG-10 cells. Used the spacers from the original batteries to get good contact. Four MS-76 will be too thick for the compartment. Set the ASA dial down 2/3, so ISO 400 gets ~250 on the dial. Check against a known accurate meter to get the factor down for your camera.

 

[Highway 61]

Set the ASA dial down 2/3, so ISO 400 gets ~250 on the dial. Check against a known accurate meter to get the factor down for your camera.

The Rollei 35SE and 35TE meters circuitries are of very interesting tolerances and no ISO adjustment is to be done when you use 4x MS-386 1.5V batteries instead of the banned PX-27 5.6V mercury cell.

More interesting thing even is that you can use 3x MS-76 cells and a small ball of aluminum paper and the meter still works and is accurate 100%.

 

[john neal]

Can't you simply fit a 4SR44? Or is the battery compartment too narrow?

 

[Highway 61]

Too narrow.

SR44 and MS-76 (or PX76) are the same cells (ditto LR44).

And two of them are of the size of a lithium CR1/3N...

So you need four PX386 (also called AG-10) if you want 6.2V ; if going with 4.65V doesn't bother you, three SR44 and a piece of aluminum paper will do it.

If only all the batteries manufacturers could ISO normalize their models callings... 🙄