Re: Fake DX

[Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>]

At 09:14 26/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>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

Another alternative is to buy a packet of DX stick-on labels for whatever
ISO setting you need. The UK store chain Jessop sells these and I imagine
they wouldn't be hard to find in any major photo store.

Joe Berenbaum