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Re: Follow-up to dead battery

To: MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Follow-up to dead battery
From: Max Heim <mvheim@attbi.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:40:44 -0700
Or start the video camera rolling (or tape down the switch if it doesn't
lock) and put that in the boot...

on 5/28/02 10:09 AM, Chuck Renner at crenner@dynalivery.com wrote:

>> From: Bob Howard [mailto:mgbob@juno.com]
>> Yes, but it's easy to do.
>> Unroll the film from a 35 mm film cannister, Kodak 400 is
>> good, and tape
>> it to the top shelf of fridge or top of spare tire.
>> Shut  fridge door or boot lid, as appropriate.
>> Wait 30 seconds.
>> Push film back into cannister.
>> Take film to developer and tell them what you did.
> 
> Unless you have the car or fridge in a darkroom, how are you going to unroll
> and rewind without exposing it?  It's a lot easier to remove one of the
> reverse lights...  :)
> 
> However, a really simple method has come from this idea...if you have a
> digital camera with a countdown timer.  Set it so the flash is off, trigger
> the countdown timer, then close it in the boot.  Wait for the camera to
> shoot, then look at the picture it took.
> 


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