DX Re-Coding

[sepiareverb]

With the M7 if one shoots with a different ISO than the film cassette is coded at the red LED blinks.

With the help of this site, and this one, some of this tape (which I had leftover from slide cropping days), some little labels and a sharpie I'm now shooting PanF+ at ISO 40 in the M7 with no flashing LED.

I set up a roll of Neopan 1600 to register at 1000 too. A few minutes gets me a brick of PanF+ coded to 40. Sad, but true- seeing the M7 read '40' when I turned it on was some kind of bliss.

 

[Tim Gray]

Just so you know, a sharpie and a razor are all that's needed. The conductive tape is nice if you have it, but all you need to do is scrape off the black paint on the canister to expose bare metal underneath.

 

[bensyverson]

Is Sharpie really enough to prevent the metal from conducting? I use small squares of scotch tape...

 

[sepiareverb]

Sharpie didn't work, that was my first try- then I tried some regular transparent tape and some blue painters tape, neither of which worked. Sharpie over a paper label did the trick.

This is an M7 with the newer DX reader- I've not tried it with my other M7 and the original DX reader yet, it's got half a roll of FP4 in it.

 

[Tim Gray]

Sharpie and razor worked for me in an M7 with the optical reader.

Except for the roll of bulk Plus-X I accidentally coded at 2500. That wasn't so smooth.

 

[bensyverson]

Optical reader?? That M7 really is fancy.