I have an 8x10 Fidelity Elite film holder that is missing the metal locking pins that keep the dark slide from being pulled on accident. Is there a fix for this? Just using a rubber band for the moment.
Thanks,
Dave
I have an 8x10 Fidelity Elite film holder that is missing the metal locking pins that keep the dark slide from being pulled on accident. Is there a fix for this? Just using a rubber band for the moment.
Thanks,
Dave
They don’t work on Fidelity holders. Just forget about them.
Keith Pitman
Small strip of Gaffers tape works.
” Never attribute to inspiration that which can be adequately explained by delusion”.
I had some holders without the locking pins. I just lived with them carefully. I tried tape and ended up pulling the slide out just enough to ruin the shot. But only once……
With or without locking pins, I always use low adhesive white tape to tape the holders closed. The tape serves as a way to keep the holders safely shut as well as a surface to write any exposure and development instructions. I then enclose the holders in a zip-lock baggie to keep out dust and moisture which then goes into a black plastic bag that comes with my enlarging paper to keep out any light.
I would try to modify some small screw hooks or L hooks, just look in a good hardware store
"Landscapes exist in the material world yet soar in the realms of the spirit..." Tsung Ping, 5th Century China
Someone did you a favor by removing them
I always carry masking tape, the blue painters kind. Even with the hook things, I still tape everything. Just a habit from studio days where all the house equipment is jacked up. Better to be careful and tape everything than trust the equipment. To this day I still gaffer tape my lensboards to the front standard. Too much to think out on the field. Nothing like looking down into a table top set and watching your lens fall into something. Or into a swamp, or grass, or a river. Tape it and forget it.
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