It's like adjusting the valves on an old air cooled VW (30 minutes including
wash up time), or maybe adding a SCSI card and a scanner to your WIN 95 PC
(less than 30 minutes), trivial for some, impossible for others. Some
perfectly fine and otherwise capable people have trouble operating light
switches and toasters. They're best served by a point and shoot camera.
Others revel in technical arcana, and feeding an OM-1 with the proper DC
voltage is a minor issue for them. The balance pick and chose their path
depending on the circumstances. I use mercury cells when I can find them,
and go with zinc-air cells (formerly Wien, now the cheaper hearing aid type
with an adapter from the Olympus Guy).
Nick Smoliga
smoliga@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
SvT TF12 - Investment Projects
931.454.6947
1103 Avenue B
Arnold AFB, TN 37389-1400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Dapoz [SMTP:md@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 12:48 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Camara for beginner
>
> > > a PX625 Mercury battery, CRIS adapter, Wein Zinc-Air cell, or an
> internal
> >
> > How much of a problem is this? This is one thing I've read about and
> > concerns me a little. I suppose that I'd have to purchase supplies via
> > mail order only.
>
> Although the mercury 625's are still readily available here in Canada,
> I've
> noticed that stores are starting to raise their price. For the longest
> time they sold for $5CDN each but most stores have now raised the price
> to $7. I suspect that prices will continue to rise as the supply
> dwindles.
> According to a dealer I spoke with, Varta has a two year supply on-hand
> so that should keep stock in stores until the end of 2001. It'll be
> interesting to see what their selling price will be then.
> -mark
>
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