Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/26

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Subject: Fake DX
From: "BIRKEY, DUANE" <dbirkey@hcjb.org.ec>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 9:14:54 -0500
 
>Has anyone ever tried making up fake DX gizmos? What if you took a 
>cassette for the speed you need, took it apart, and cut out the 
section 
>of the metal shell with the DX pattern on it, and then just stuck this 
on 
>another cassette with double-sided tape, so that it would have a DX 
code 
>for a different speed? 

I've got a doctor at our hospital who has a DX only type camera.  We 
bulk roll all of our film but all of the re-usable Konica cassettes I 
have are DX coded at 100 and he wants to use 400.   So I've made a few 
cassettes scratching away the black non-conducting areas and putting 
scotch tape over the metal conducting areas to change the coding.  It 
works, but I'm not sure I would want to do it on a regular basis.  It's 
easier to use exposure compensation or manual DX settings.

Duane Birkey
HCJB World Radio
Quito Ecuador