Wayde Allen (wallen@boulder.nist.gov)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:35:21 -0600 (MDT)
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 Altview@aol.com wrote:
> Jim Ormand, the owner of Western Bellows, my sole source for replacement
> bellows for my clients (I do 30 to 40 bellows a year) and who makes the
> finest bellows in the country, read the aforementioned article and told me it
> was so filled with inaccuracies, poor planning and design advice, and just
> generally a mishmash of information, he couldn't imagine anyone making a
> competent bellows from his instructions.
Which article are you referring too, the info on Doug Bardell's page or the
article in View Camera Magazine?
> Even I, who makes view cameras from
> scratch, won't attempt it. Sometimes it is just better to let an expert do
> the work. Spending hours trying to make something as complicated and precise
> as a pair of bellows seems a waste of time when one could be making images or
> prints.
I've made both View Cameras and bellows for those cameras from scratch.
It isn't such a daunting task. Besides, the way anyone chooses to spend
their time is a pretty personal thing. I've been told that
building/repairing cameras is a waste of time too. Now I'd probably agree
if you wanted to discuss whether or not it is cost effective to build your
own versus buying them. I think it takes me about eight hours to build a
bellows.
- Wayde
(wallen@boulder.nist.gov)
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