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pedro Reis
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 04:44 pm: | 
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Hi.
Just got an Yashica FX-2. read somewhare that uses a 1.5 battery so i went i bought one in a sports store. Its an energizer 1.5v alkaline battery.
Is this the correct battery? If so, how do i adjust/correct the meter because is underexposing allot!!
Pedro |
Sam Spade
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 06:29 pm: |
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Hi Pedro. From memory I think my old FX-2 used a 1.3v mercury battery (could be wrong?) so you'll need to get something like a 1.35/1.4 ZA. Take a trip over to Rick Olesons site, sure you'll find a bit about replacement's on there. Or try www.butkus.org/chinon
for a manual to check out the specs.
All the best.
Sam. |
Pedro Reis
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 06:41 pm: |
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Hi Sam.
Thanks .. i was just finding that.....
Besides the 1.4 ZA batteries is there any kind of adjustment that we could do in the camera to solve this? |
Sam Spade
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 07:39 pm: |
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Hi Pedro. I'd grab a bat first just to be on the safe side. Then, if all is ok, you wont need to have the camera looked at and or adjusted. I have a number of Ricoh's and the 2 ZF's will take the Lr44's (1.5v). One is fine the other I drop the ISO from 400 to 320 and it's ok (black and white film) but the FM under exposes real bad with them. My Minolta HI-Matic G2 doesn't care what you feed it on it just takes great pictures: obviously a better designed power control circuit. I think (perhaps Rick or someone more knowledgeable can agree/disagree) that the Lr44 type bats , apart from being over the required voltage, delivers its power in away that, fluctuates and is therefore not a constant voltage especially as it begins to die. I have in the past (just as an experiment) purposely drained an Lr44 down to around 1.3-ish volts only to find an hour or so later that it had rejuvenated (if that‘s the right term) back to almost 1,5v? I seem to remember that my FX-2 wasn’t power hungry (my OM4 WAS! Plugged it into the national grid! It was cheaper!) so the 1.4 ZA should last. Do you have a problem obtaining them?
All the best.
Sam. |
Pedro Reis
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 07:45 pm: |
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Hi,
Thanks for the awnser.
Dont know if i can get the 1.4 ZA. Never tryed 
I'll try that first, instead of changing the camera or controls.
Thanks again.
Pedro |
Sam Spade
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, May 26, 2006 - 07:56 pm: |
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Renata do a Zinc Air 1.4 number is ZA675 Hearing aid batteries 6 in a pack for £3.00 GBP.
Sam. |
Pedro Reis
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 08:15 am: |
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Just got a pack of 6 675ZA batteries for 6.9€ ;).
Even now the camera underexposes....
Where my 350D shows f1.4 1/8, the yashica says f1.7 1/60, same iso offcourse. |
Sam Spade
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 06:25 pm: |
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Does it underexpose by the same amount before you changed bats? What lens are you using?
Sam. |
Pedro Reis
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, May 27, 2006 - 07:35 pm: |
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Yes, i beleive that is the same amount.
I'm using a ML F1.7 |
Sam Spade
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 05:52 am: |
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Looks like your FX-2's going to need a service. Strange; they were qute a reliable camera, had mine three years and although I used it a lot it never once caused me a problem. Where did you buy the FX-2 from?
Sam. |
Pedro Reis
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 07:59 am: |
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I bought it in a local flea market... 15€.
Seemed a good buy... |
Pedro Reis
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, May 28, 2006 - 11:38 am: |
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Well, solved .. i think.
Opened the top and adjusted 2 resistors until i got it right at F16 1/125 asa 100 and 1/500 asa 400 pointing at the street
Now it matches my eos 350d meter ). |
Sam Spade
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 04:41 am: |
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Glad to hear you've solved it. Wonder why/how it came to be out of addjustment. Still, not a bad buy for 15e was it.
Sam. |
