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> Someone told me they had read that you could change the asa setting to compensate for using a 1.5 volt battery instead of the 1.35. Has anyone else heard of this? I read that you could add a diode to the battery wire under the bottom plate too. I bought the stuff to do it but my dexterity is poor due to arthritis that forced me into early retirement, so if there's a way to adjust for it, that would be better. My friend told me it was as simple as changing the film speed. If you use 200 asa film set the camera to 400. Is this true?? >> Your friend is wrong. The difference varies with the amount of light in the scene, so there might be a small difference in bright light and a large difference in low light. A simple change in the film speed is static and does not adequately compensate. The best approach is to use Wein cells -- or zinc-air hearing aid cells with an adapter.
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