[Leica] Dear Dr. Black Tape (was Rubber bands and Softies)

[Rob Schneider-Laura Tully <robslaurat@earthlink.net>]

Dear Dr. Black Tape:

Thank you for your suggestion.  Maybe somewhere I can find actual, for real, honest-to-god BLACK rubber bands!  Worth the
search, I'm sure.

Now a serious point:  Have you noticed that if the shutter is cocked and you slip a rubber band around the Softie, then
press down on the release, that the LED's go on and STAY ON!?  The rubber band holds the shutter release partially down.
Can't fire the shutter, but can wear out a battery.  Absolutely forces you to turn the knob to B.  At least that's the way
it works for me.

BTW, Dr. Black Tape, do you know Scotch brand #33 electrical tape?  Doesn't gunk up a camera, good to 165 degrees F.  It's
the bee's knees!

(Set your flame throwers to "Incinerate.")

Rob
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>
> Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 07:59:56 -0400
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Rubber bands and Softies
>
> Ask Dr. Black Tape:
>
> > - But now I have another problem.  I found nice,
> > two-inch, red rubber bands to wrap around my straps and
> > Softies.  But after I put tape over the rubber bands (they're
> > red, after all)  I can't get them around the Softies.
> > Suggestions?
> >
> > Rob
> Dr. Black Tape has any easy solution for that one:
>
> Take two, 2-inch, natural colored rubber bands. Color them with a
> wide-tipped felt permanent black marker. Voila! You have black rubber bands
> that will fit correctly around your black softie and won't advertise the
> fact that you are using a Leica.
>
> For solutions to those pesky red dot conundrums, write to:
>
> Ask Dr. Black Tape
> West Wing
> St. Elizabeths(sic) Hospital
> Washington, D.C.
>
> (NO, there is NO apostrophe in St. Elizabeths. It' a longggggggg story, one
> I wrote for The Washington Post in my early general assignment days 29 years
> ago...but there is NO apostrophe.
> Dr. Black Tape)