Something ewlse is wrong with your meter to make it 3 stops off. With an
MR9 adapter and 1.5v silver oxide, meter should be dead on. OR, your camera
had been recalibrated to the alkaline 1.5v battery.
John
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Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:28 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM-1n battery
> It had to have been modified. None of them came from the factory like this
> that I know of.
> Maybe John Hermanson can give you an idea of what mod has been made.
>
> Catmaster
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph Chen" <chenjoseph@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 7:24 PM
> Subject: [OM] OM-1n battery
>
>
> > I'm new to this list, but have shot on and off with OM-2n and OM-4
> equipment
> > for a number of years. I have particularly found that the extensive
flash
> > options and OTF metering invaluable for the medical applications that I
> have
> > used the equipment for.
> >
> > Having two electronic bodies, I had the hankering to get an OM-1n, which
I
> > purchased on eBay, and just arrived yesterday. Beautiful mechanicals,
but
> I
> > noticed that the meter consistently read 3 stops too slow.
> >
> > I put in a new silver oxide cell in a CRIS adapter and the same result,
> > three stops too slow consistently. (as compared to the metering of my
> > c-2020z)
> >
> > I was getting quite annoyed, but found that on CamTech's site that
putting
> > in a 1.5v cell in these cameras normally results in the readings being 3
> > stops off. Sooooo- I put in a naked ep76 cell and strangely, the meter
is
> > right on. I noticed then that the old cell in the camera was a 625A
> > although on a volt-meter its output was only 1.2V. I wonder if the
camera
> > had been modified at some point or whether some OM-1ns took 1.5v cells.
> > Does anyone know?
> >
> > -J
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