Re: [Leica] Black Tape

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Doc!
If you get close, and see through this tape, does the image have 'Bokeh'?
<g>
Dan'l
dwpost@msn.com
- -----Original Message-----
From: Edward Gosfield III, MD <egosfield@nni.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, February 08, 1998 8:54 AM
Subject: [Leica] Black Tape

>for those of you who find the Varta and Wetzlar-tape too expensive for your
>intended purpose, you should be aware that Varta have licensed a large
>Japanese company to make a special tape designed in Germany by Varta.  The
>tape is called 'Kontakt', and Varta have sent German QC engineers to the
>Japanese factory.  They inspect every foot of the tape to make sure it
>meets their original design and manufaturing specifications, and there are
>no Japanese personnel permitted in the special inspection room while they
>do this.
>
>The tape itself has special features:  it is automatic! It contains
>synthetic chromophores which sense the color of the object to which it is
>applied, and adjust the tape color accordingly.  If you get up real close
>to it you can barely see through the tape, but if you are shooting stuff at
>a distance, and moving real fast it works quite well.
>
>In Japan there is a controversy about whether the Kontakt tape is
>'Hon-Tapu' (ie "true tape, as in 'hon-yaki'--"true forged" swords and
>cutlery) or a clever but inherently inferior design concept.  And of course
>the Wetzlar-tape and even the original (Ur-Varta) Varta tape are said to
>have special qualities of texture and appearance due to the ineffable
>German aesthetic of their designers, who preceded the days of mass-market
>computer controlled tape manufacture.
>
>eg
>
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