[pure-silver] Re: DX Code Stickers Available?
- From: Snoopy <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 10:28:04 +0200
Dear Rich,
I can ask my wholesaler here, have not seen them in the catalogue
recently though.
However beware: back when songs were sad and sweet and I knew them
complete and I wore a younger mans clothes, I knew the head of the AGFA
cartridge making facility. I swear, he looked just like Doc Brown from
"Back to the Future" and it always took me a herculean effoert to not
burst into laughter when I saw him. He had very similar mannerisms too.
AGFA was an OEM to Fuji, Kodak and various German "drugstore" film
confectioners who then reeled their stuff into AGFA made cartridges.
(Often in fact the cheap films were pretty good AGFA emulsions).
The DX Marker does not only notify the camera of the ASA setting but
also the FILM LENGTH in exposures and Doc Brown and his merry men ran a
huge quality control system to ensure that the LIDS of the cartridges
(top and bottom) were exactly at right angles to the cartridge body. For
if there is a deviation then the camera cannot read the DX markings
properly.
Which might lead to either wrong exposures but also -far worse- that the
camera believes the film has 12 or 24 instead of 36 exposures - and the
film then gets rewound early and customer gets very irate.
Therefore I would be _very_ careful if you actually stick something onto
the cartridge - if you just get it slightly crooked you will get
problems. Probably a better idea to simply remove the paint from the
cartridge at the required spots and not add extra thickness. The layout
of the DX patterns is all over the web, you can surely find it.
If you look closely, your cameras contacts are round little pins whereas
the DX Fields are much larger squares, so there is some margin for error
of the cartridge placement but good contact is vital.
Try using one those eraser "pencils" which have the rubber inside and
you can sharpen properly. Or you can use some chemicals to remove the paint.
As for "adjusting the ASA". This is a fiunction of the camera, not the
cartridge or the DSX markings. Some cameras will not allow annual
setting or adjustment of the film speed.
Good luck!
Love,
Snoopy
On 05/30/2011 12:17 AM, richard lahrson wrote:
> Hi! Are these still around? For sticking on to 35mm cassettes to use in
> numerous p&s cameras. Is there an easy work around maybe like dymo tape or
> some ink marking pen that would work? Thanks for all help! Rich
>
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