From: Bill Collins (photo@intrex.net)
Date: 09/03/02-06:38:44 AM Z
I don't know how it would hold up to the humidity in Barbados, but I use a paper based black tape that seems to be very common in art supply stores.
Bill
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Bob Kiss <bobkiss@caribsurf.com>
Reply-to: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 07:21:11 -0300
>DEAR LIST,
> I am having a ball with my turn of the (last!) century cherry wood and
>brass Kodak 5X7 camera! It sat in storage for a few decades while I tried
>to play fashion photographer.
> I recently exhumed it and it still works! Packard shutter, Leitmeyer
>(sp?) portrait lens, and all! The only problem I am having is a small about
>of light leaking in at the flap end of the sheet film holders due to aging
>of the tape hinge that the flaps in place allows them to fold back so one
>can slide in the sheets of film.
> Can someone suggest a tape that is:
>1) light tight (black) and strong.
>2) flexible.
>3) not adversely affected by my rather humid Island environment. Many tapes
>get
> rather flimsy and sticky.
> If this is off topic, please feel free to e-mail me off list.
> CHEERS FROM BARBADOS!
> BOB
>
>
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