I recently purchased AE Meter which I received today. It is an AE meter (see pictures) and it fits my 1000s (according to KEH). There is no shutter speed dial so it is am aperture- priority meter. And according to my downloaded 1000s manual, this isn?t a PD or PD S or CdS meter. There's no mention of this meter prism.
The meter seems to be functional, but when I fire the shutter, the shutter stays open for what sounds like 1 second, no matter what shutter speed the meter needle is point to. The Internal display in the meter is at the top of the view finder and is in shutter speeds so I expected the camera shutter to be set to the speed the needle shows. I have the camera speed dial set on the round red o. If I move it off that setting, the meter shuts off. As you can see in the attached photo, there is no battery compartment, so I assume it isn?t a CdS type meter. There is a white button in the middle of the off-on switch. Any idea what it is supposed to do. As far as I can tell, it doesn?t do anything. KEH listed it as an AE Meter for the 645 and the 1000s. The sales person I spoke to (after returning a defective PD prism) said it was for the 1000s camera. I?m beginning to think I?m snake-bit on metered prisms.
What do I need to do to make the camera understand the prism meter? Am doing something wrong, is this the wrong meter for this camera and did KEH mess me up again? Any assistance would be MOST appreciated.
Jerry
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