RE: [Leica] Dr. Blacktape, meet Dr. Scholl

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

DR. BLACKTAPE RESPONDS WITH ALL RESPECT...

...but is sorry he has to tell you that he knows of no blacktape that won't
eventually bleed in the manner you so eloquently describe. However, Dr.
Blacktape would suggest that you may have unwittingly stumbled upon a
solution in the workbox of his good friend and colleague, Dr. Scholl. What
Dr. B would urge you to do is to take one of Dr. S's corn pads - with the
hole in the middle - and use a Sharpie permanent marker to, in the words of
the Rolling Stones, "paint it black."

Good luck, and may you not get "athlete's eye."



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Peter A.
> Klein
> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 6:18 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Dr. Blacktape, meet Dr. Scholl
>
>
> Dear Dr. Blacktape,
>
> In my recent Leica acquisitions, I picked up an old Accura 28-135mm zoom
> finder. It makes my old IIIf much easier to shoot with.  It's a quantum
> leap better than the Leitz Immarect finder, and a glasses wearer can see
> the entire frame at all focal lengths.  But it has a conical
> metal eyepiece
> that could wreak havoc on my eyeglasses.  I've temporarily made it
> glasses-friendly with a piece of "moleskin," cut into a circle, with the
> eyepiece hole punched out using a looseleaf notebook punch.  Dr.
> Blacktape,
> meet Dr. Scholl!
>
> I would like to replace this temporary covering with something cleanable
> and of a suitable color--namely black, so it doesn't refect ambient light
> from behind my glasses into my eye.  Pray tell, dear Doctor, is there any
> particular brand of black tape that is less prone to bleed glue from the
> edges, or leave a skicky residue on the camera when removed after a period
> of "Leica incognito."
>
> I ask this with, of course, the *deepest* respect, and in all
> sincerity and
> seriousness.  Really.
>
> Yours truly,
> Spec Wearer in Seattle
>
> --- Peter
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