Maker: Yashica Model: YEM35 Super Circa: 1967 Price (new): $14.95 Cell type: CdS Measure type: Reflecting/Averaging Battery: PX625 mercury |
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You can't see scale in this photo, but it's about the same size as my Yashica Clip-on, Fris and Capital. It has a foot underneath so it can be seated on the accessory shoe of a camera, so it's small. This Super is a later version of their earlier YEM 35. This would be a nice unit to use on my various meter-less cameras, but it suffers from the same problem of almost all CdS meters built in the 1960s: it uses the infamous PX625 mercury battey which can't be found anymore. So you can either try to find a voltage-equivalent and make an adapter for it, or buy the special converter, or have it recalibrated for a modern battery, all of which far exceed the value of the meter itself. |