I think the least expensive solution to the problem is, as Tim suggests,
an external battery adapter for your OM-4 to hold AA or AAA alkaline
batteries. Battery size doesn't matter, only the voltage. You need a
nominal 3 volts. A new alkaline or button cell will measure about 1.55
volts or 3.1 volts for two in series (batteries connected positive pole
of one to the negative pole of the other)
If I were to make such an adapter myself it would be like Tim suggested
but would extend past the right edge of the camera and the two batteries
would then extend vertically upward to form a handle ala an OM winder.
In fact, a non-working winder case might make a good base to build on.
You could use only two batteries or else four batteries with each pair
rewired to be in parallel with each other. Maybe it would even be
possible to use a working winder but modified to tap off two of the four
batteries to feed the camera.
Chuck Norcutt
Chris Crawford wrote:
> Yeah but the repair cost far exceeds what I'm willing to pay for fixing
> these things. Not that its excessive compared to what photo gear normally
> costs to fix, but I just don't think old Selenium meters are a good repair
> investment. I have a Sekonic L-508 and a Gossen Ultra Spot II (which took me
> FOREVER to save the money for when I was in college!). Both are really
> better meters than the Westons and neither of them uses batteries quickly so
> I have never had one die in the field so that I was left meterless.
>
> I think the old weston meters are neat and I have a couple of them I have
> collected at flea markets for $5 or so each, but they're obsolete. I use a
> spotmeter 99% of the time when I use a handheld meter and I use it 100% of
> the time in my OM-4 bodies. That said, I would love to find a working Ranger
> 9. I have always thought that was a COOL meter for some reason. That and an
> SEI photometer. Those come up on ebay occassionally but they never work and
> are expensive.
>
> If I were not poor, I'd collect old stuff like that. I have a lot of
> expensive stuff but most of it was bought when I was in high school or
> college, living off my parents, so that I could use money I earned on gear.
> Since graduating college, I have never earned much money so I only buy
> things I can get CHEAP. My digital SLRs are the only exception to that I've
> made and that's cause I needed them for work that paid, and they paid for
> themselves pretty fast. My film cameras are for my personal work, not for
> money earning, unfortunately :(
>
>
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