About 10 years ago I got the same idea about cheap electrical tape.
Tried it out and it seemed to work great, so I ordered about 100
rolls for a project to provide pinhole cameras to schools. Most of
it hardly stuck at all and the rest came loose pretty quick. Maybe
it's OK for making metal pintoids light tight, but I wouldn't
recommend it for assembling foamcore or matboard cameras. A physicist
I know also told me it's not opaque in the infrared if you're into
that!
>Guy wrote: ". How did you get them light tight? Did you wrap some
> > tape around to seal the light away? I suppose that you loaded them in a
> > light-tight bag. How many would you carry around with you on a typical
> > day?"
>
>..... That got
>expensive. I've found electrical tape on sale ... three rolls for a buck. I
>made over one hundred Pintoids. ....
>Marcy Merrill
>Photographer
>www.merrillphoto.com
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