Chuck Stephens (mcs@u.washington.edu)
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:53:12 -0700
I have made two different bellows, my first was 8x10 the second was 4x5
using the article in View Camera Magazine. It was not hard, just time
consuming, folding the bellows I thought was the hardest part. They both
were far more than just "competent" they were as good as any bellows I have
seen on any camera.
-=Chuck=-
"the dude abides"
> 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. 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.
>
> Patrick Alt
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