Re: DX-Coded Labels

> "Mike Schuler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > I don't think it would be easy to make your own.

Looking at a Kodak MAX 400 canister I asked myself: how hard can it be? So I
took a roll of Velvia and by adding a 6mm strip piece of electric tape and
another 6mm strip of the silver (aluminum?) duct tape which is conductive,
at the proper places on the Velvia canister, I transformed the ISO50 velvia
to ISO400.   I found that the only section of bar code that counts, at least
in my Nikon camera, is the half portion closer to the opening from where the
film exits from the canister, the other half is of no consequence, fact that
simplifies matters.  The tape was placed along the perimeter of the
cylindrical surface to match the correct half of the bar coded label of the
MAX400 canister.  Since only the half section closer to the film exit slot
counts, it didn't matter if I covered the other half with either the
electric or the silver tape. Hope I am making sense.

I been having problems with my ISP's news server, my apologies for any
repeated message.

Guillermo.