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Subject: [Leica] Black Tape - Silver Tape?
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey at mchsi.com)
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:56:29 +0000
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Gary,


At least you were doing it for a specific reason to keep your settings in 
place and not worrying about the logo or red dot mania that seems to 
permeate Leica and other brand sites.


Cheers,
Gene
? -------------- Original message from Gary Todoroff <datamaster at 
northcoastphotos.com>: --------------


> I always have tape attached to body, lenses, camera bag, etc. I use 
> it for locking down the lens at infinity and taping all the other 
> knobs and switches that inevitably get bumped during aerial 
> photography. (Anybody remember my rant on R8 "knobitis"?) In fact I 
> mention "tape" about a dozen times in a how-to article on aerial 
> photography at:
> http://northcoastphotos.com/article3.html
> *Black* tape works fine on the camera and *silver* metallic tape (100 
> mph tape) works best on anything out in the slipstream, like camera 
> mounts. Birds flying by have yet to notice the brand of my camera, 
> even with the logo still showing.
> Gary Todoroff
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from wanderjan at gmail.com (Jan Decher) ([Leica] Black Tape - Silver Tape?)
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Message from datamaster at northcoastphotos.com (Gary Todoroff) ([Leica] Black Tape - Silver Tape?)