Recent content by Strangeidols

That's pretty reassuring, i looked around online, and read the article posted by Andrew and was a bit worried about the whole voltage difference between mercury and less risky batteries. I did see a thing about using schottky diodes to reduce the voltage, which weirdly enough I've got lying...

I called my dad who's a bit more clued up on cameras and these things than i am (photography's really new to me, I'm a bored musician and a furloughed bartender), his advice is pretty much identical to this, with an added "if it's not leaking, don't worry". Hopefully that won't be a concern, but...

Hi, first post here so I'm not sure if I'm doing this the right way, but I've not been able to find any information elsewhere and hoped maybe someone here would know. I recently got a Praktica TL3, which takes a PX625 battery, back when they were made this wouldve been a mercury battery. I've...