Yashica Electro 35 GX - need battery information.

I have just received a great looking Yashica Electro 35 GX but it has no

batteries. The information re batteries on the internet seems to be five

years old.

 

Are there any GX users out there who can tell me what the best solution is?

 

I am really keen to use the camera for street photography but can't do

anything without batteries.

 

Thanks,

Andrew.

 

(ndnbrunei)

You need 2 x PX640. http://www.smallbattery.company.org.uk/index.htm?http://www.smallbattery.company.org.uk/sbc_a26px.htm

 

Also see here http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/index-frameset.html?batteries.html~mainFrame

 

Roger

First link is wrong - but just type px640 in the site's search box.

 

Roger

PX 28 works well, but it may move inside and the spring could be too lose. My 2 c: After loading the battery, shake the camera and try the led light for the battery a few times, and always check it before shooting.

Mine has two PC640A alkalines, and they work just fine.

There was an adapter made for these if I remember correctly. I sold mine some time back but I'm sure that it was the same model and I had bought a battery adapter for it that allowed the use of modern batteries in place of the original mercury battery.

 

- Randy

This model does not use a PX28 -- that's the Electro 35 G/GS/GSN -- and there is no adapter needed. I use two PC640A's in mine, as stated above.

Thanks to everyone for the information, very helpful. I think I will try for the 1.5v SR44 [silver] (+ tinfoin packing). I gather that these batteries have a similar voltage output over time as the original mercury batteries - no slow tapering off and loss of reliable metering in the process.

 

Thanks again,

Andrew,

(ndnbrunei)

try www.yashica-guy.com

Andrew--

 

The GX is of course electronic and is not picky about the exact voltage. Even if the PC640A's taper off a little, as alkalines will do, the camera will still function normally. As long as the battery check lights up, you're ok.

 

I have had the alkalines in mine for over a year and they still work fine. No need for tinfoil, etc.

I should also mention that the original mercury batteries were 1.35 volts. The silver oxides are 1.55 volts, and the alkalines are 1.50 (but tapering slowly down.) Thus the alkalines will actually be a better match, voltage-wise, than the silver oxides. But you could still use silver oxides: this demonstrates that the voltage is not that critical.

I had exactly the same problem, but the pain was short lived.

 

The answer was a Kodak 28A Alkaline 1.5v. Whilst it is smaller than the original, all I did was wrap it in a bit of card and then made a tinfoil plug to connect it to the bottom terminal.

 

It worked a treat, is cheap and the batteries are readily available.

 

And they've been in there about 6 months now and still working quite nicely.

 

Hope it helps.

THANK YOU to everyone!

 

Donnie - thanks for the insights re voltage not necessarilly being a big problem. The 1.5 battery sounds fine.

 

Smiley Mike - thanks for the packing and wrapping tips!

 

MMMmmmm people over here are a lot more helpful than some sites!! Muchly appreciated :-)

 

Andrew.