Re: Electrical tape for pinhole purposes

I used strapping tape to make this camera..
http://www.rahji.com/images/composinglines.jpg
then used gaffer's tape over all of the joints just to make it light tight.
the strapping tape makes a really strong box though.

rob

> From: George L Smyth <glsmyth@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 12:45:03 -0700 (PDT)
> To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
> Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Electrical tape for pinhole purposes
>
>
> --- Nick Dvoracek <dvoracek@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu> wrote:
>> 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!
>
> This is correct. I use electrical tape to amke my foamcore cameras, but then,
> they've always been designed with the expectation that I'll eventually sit on
> them and destroy them anyway.
>
> It is true that electrical tape is not infrared opaque, but then I rather
> doubt
> that foamcore or matboard is either, so that's a moot point. OTOH, although
> different types of wood have different degrees of infrared opacity, I have
> used
> pine (which is probably about the least opaque wood) with infrared with
> success, so thickness probably enters into the scene.
>
> Cheers -
>
> george
>
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Received on Wed Sep 19 20:08:08 2001