Re: Construction of Bellows?

Beakman (beakman@netcom.com)
Fri, 30 Jun 1995 12:54:56 -0700 (PDT)

>
> The March/April issue of View Camera...building a view
> camera...experienced...and...precise... I'm crazy enough to think I
> actually have time to build a view camera, but how precise is precise,
> what are the tolerances involved in building a wood camera?

..well, there isn't very much that one needs to be terribly precise
about except two things:

1. Be absolutely precise about not allowing any light leaks.

(no problem, you say. Well, now that I've given you a false sense of
confidence, I'll tell you about the real difficulty...)

2. The spring back which holds the film holder has to be made *very*
precisely - an error of 1mm. would be bad. You need to be absolutely
certain that when you put a film holder in the back that the film in the
holder is now located in the exact same plane as the inner surface of the
ground glass - otherwise you will have focusing errors.

but if you can master this, you've got it!

dave