> Actually there are two methods of making the folds and corners in bellows
> so "square" may have two meanings. One is what you describe above. The
> other has to do with the appearance of the corners. In the most common
> bellows the corners are truncated. In the other type the corners are right
> angles. This is the type of bellows found on Deardorf cameras.
I guess I've only seen the "truncated" corners. I'll have to see if I can
find a Deardorf to look at. I'll have to think about it a bit, but it
doesn't seem that this really changes the way one would make the folds.
It would only change the way the stiffeners would be laid out. Seems like
the stiffeners in one side would have to be longer than those in an
adjacent side, or at least offset. Don't know for sure though.
Interesting. Might have to play with this.
- Wayde
(wallen@boulder.nist.gov)