9 Jun
2010
9 Jun
'10
1:01 p.m.
> I rememebr them saying it was better to store
recharageble batteries in
> the discharged state (since they then couldn't self-discharge). There my
> be a battery technology where that's true, but most of the common ones
> are better stored charged.
[...]
Not sure about NiMH or Nicad, it's been a while
since I read the spec
sheets.
NiCd certain;ly prefer to be kept charged. I don't know about NiMH, I've
never used one.
> Second little hint : None of my cameras has a
hard disk, or a CD-ROM
> drive, or...
I am not going to post an inventory of my camera collection, but several
of my cameras contain no electrical compoennts _at all_. And for many of
the others, the only eelctrical part is a flash sync contact.
Let's see what I've got in my kit box...
Olympus OM10: Two SR44s, 35mm film. Have used it in some pretty rough
conditions.
OT, very... The only Olympus SLRs I really care for are the PEN-F series
(half frame and beautifully made).
Olympus Trip 35. Let my brother borrow this, he
rewarded my generosity
by smashing the selenium cell. Now the metering is shot to buggery :(
IIRC that;'s an ring-shamed cell around the lens, and is almost
impossible to replace with anything else (for plain rectangular
selenium cells you can often use a piece cut from a silicon solar cell,
and fiddle ther resistors in the meter circuit). On the otehr hand,
Olympus Trips are not hard to find (I've seen plenty in charity shops),
and they're easy to work on ot make one good one from 2 dead ones.
-tony