...used for years? I own a Metrastar handheld light meter and several Olympus OM-1 camera bodies I have left stored after retiring from newspaper photography/freelance work in 1989. I dusted the things off, cleaned lenses, and installed new batteries in them.
But. The readings are erratic and seem not to be correct from my experience. Like asa 400, on a bright sunshiny day should still require 1/500 sec at F-16 manual setting !
None of each of my equipment will register that reading or come close to it. Some wander...the meter needle slowly go up the scale then down, never stopping anywhere for long. Some, the needle wanders erratically.
Old man Sandy, of Sandy's Photo at Anchorage, Alaska, years ago showed me a trick of sandwiching two quarters on a button camera battery, one on "+" side and the other on "-" side and letting the ends touch for a split second, "to bring battery to life?" before installing into camera or light meter...? Does that make sense ? Or was that some of his sales pitch magic.
Wondering if I have to send my equipment to a camera shop for repair or "jump start?"
But. The readings are erratic and seem not to be correct from my experience. Like asa 400, on a bright sunshiny day should still require 1/500 sec at F-16 manual setting !
None of each of my equipment will register that reading or come close to it. Some wander...the meter needle slowly go up the scale then down, never stopping anywhere for long. Some, the needle wanders erratically.
Old man Sandy, of Sandy's Photo at Anchorage, Alaska, years ago showed me a trick of sandwiching two quarters on a button camera battery, one on "+" side and the other on "-" side and letting the ends touch for a split second, "to bring battery to life?" before installing into camera or light meter...? Does that make sense ? Or was that some of his sales pitch magic.
Wondering if I have to send my equipment to a camera shop for repair or "jump start?"