Showing posts with label batteries. Show all posts
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Monday, 28 September 2009

the problem with vintage cameras no.3476

is that sometimes the technology that they need to work has been outlawed - genuinely!

To power my exposure meter and give my photographs a hope in hell of working, my OM-1n needs a Mercury battery - unfortunately these batteries got banned for being, I don't know, a bit deadly - so now us old-school Oly shooters need a workaround. Step in the 675 Zinc-air hearing aid battery, which I'm told promises to be just as effective to within a bit of a stop.

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