Andrew,
I believe I saw some "stick on" DX labels somewhere on the web. Might be worth
a
search.
...Wayne
> Andrew L Wendelborn <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> A couple of months ago in Singapore I saw a mju-II going cheap and
> couldn't
> resist it (first new camera in years).
>
> I've put a couple of films through it -- one BW, one slides -- and have
> been pretty impressed. I'll post some pics at some stage as I have a
> couple of questions.
>
>
> But what I want to do now is run another Ilford XP2 Super through it,
> but
> this time at EI 100 rather than its rated 400 ASA.
>
>
> So I'm wondering how to trick the camera into thinking it has a 100 ASA
> canister.
>
>
> I've found the DX codes documented here:
> http://www.bythom.com/dxcodes.htm
>
> It's a 12 position binary encoding, a position value determined by
> whether
> or not it is electrically conductive.
>
>
> Now ASA 400 encodes as positions 4 and 5 conductive.
> And ASA 100 encodes as positions 3 and 5 conductive.
>
> So I need to change 3 to be conductive, and make 4 non-conductive.
>
>
> I propose to do this:
>
> use black paint (or maybe tape) to make 4 non-conductive;
>
> use some allegedly conductive "paint" that I have somewhere
> to make pos 3 conductive (or stick on some foil?).
>
>
> Any comments? Has anyone out there done this?
>
>
> And what does the mju-II use as a default ASA if it can't find a code?
> --
> another way might be to just black out all the positions.
>
>
>
> thanks
> Andrew
>
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