Joenail
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Hello!
I bought a half plate camera about a month ago and have been struggling to make a set of bellows for it since. My first problem is the extension/thickness/compression relationship--I don't seem to be able to have a decent amount of extension and still be able to compress the bellows enough to comfortably fold the camera up. Second, and most annoying, problem is that the ribs are cutting into the image area on one side and blocking about 5mm of the ground glass. I will be able to sort it I imagine, it's just tedious cutting 100 little rectangles and folding the whole thing etc only to find out that it doesn't work again, haha. So if anyone has done this before and encountered similar problems or even just has a little advice it'd save me lots of time and money on all those A0 prints!
Thanks, and sorry for the messy post--I'm in a rush!
Joe.
I bought a half plate camera about a month ago and have been struggling to make a set of bellows for it since. My first problem is the extension/thickness/compression relationship--I don't seem to be able to have a decent amount of extension and still be able to compress the bellows enough to comfortably fold the camera up. Second, and most annoying, problem is that the ribs are cutting into the image area on one side and blocking about 5mm of the ground glass. I will be able to sort it I imagine, it's just tedious cutting 100 little rectangles and folding the whole thing etc only to find out that it doesn't work again, haha. So if anyone has done this before and encountered similar problems or even just has a little advice it'd save me lots of time and money on all those A0 prints!
Thanks, and sorry for the messy post--I'm in a rush!
Joe.