Re: painting cookie tin cameras

Is it possible that the cover's leaking? I've had to put black tape around
the cap everytime I load my metal can cameras or I sometimes get a fogged
negative. If you're worried about the paint, you can steel wool the metal
so the paint sticks better then paint it with Krylon Ultra-Flat. I've never
had problems with that system.

Good luck,
rob

> From: "Shannon Stoney" <shannonstoney@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 22:10:22 -0700
> To: pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com
> Subject: [pinhole-discussion] painting cookie tin cameras
>
> I just developed a negative that I made in a cookie tin camera yesterday.
> It looks sort of flat; that is , there are no good darks I suspect, just
> looking at the negative. It looks like it might be fogged all over sort of
> evenly. I wonder if that might be because the inside of the tin is still a
> bit shiny. It's as if the shininess of the tin is showing through the black
> although you can't see any unpainted tin. I gave it one coat of flat
> black; should I give it another coat? Also, I got rather cheap black
> enamel. Maybe I should have gotten a slightly better grade.
>
> --shannon
>
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Received on Sat May 25 13:52:47 2002