Will a Camera work without an Electric eye?

[Shutter]

I have a Gaf Anscomatic st/101 that requires a hard to find battery that powers the "electric eye". Will the camera work without the electric eye?

[BolexPlusx]

Yes it will, but your exposure will only be correct if you use an external light meter, and this only applies if your camera allows you to set the exposure manually (most do).

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ June 08, 2003 08:13 AM: Message edited by: BolexPlusx ]</font>

[al77]

If the camera doesn't have manual exposure you could try to get a battery from this place - http://www.weincell.com/weinchart.htm - they list that they have a battery for that model of camera but the page hasn't been updated since 2001 so that may no longer be the case.

[Shutter]

How do I use an external light meater?

[regular8mm]

http://www.16mmoviemaking.com/light_meter.htm

Yesterday I bought a SLR Russian 35mm still camera for $2 at a school flea market. Wow. Usually light meters in cameras are dead but I figured that since I had some light meters ($5) I'd be able to use the camera mechanically; or rather teach my 7 year old son to shoot. I loaded and unloaded the camera for him and took all the light readings and he did all the shooting. He loved it.

It is really fun to shoot film manually with a hand held light meter.