Thanks Oren. I was focused on the long end of the scale.
A cheaper alternative ( but of good quality AFAIK and from personnel experience) might be Rudy, present on Ebay as ecbuyonline (not sure on that though, search the forum). You might contact him to see what he can do..
Good luck
It's a pity that it is almost always a recurring phenomena that Toyo, otherwise very nice camera's, their bellows are below par..
I have a Toyo 45c and a 75mm with both bag bellows and standard bellows. I have the 75mm on a recessed board and even then it is horrible to use with the standard bellows, it don't take much in the way of movements at all and the bellows start to pull at the rear standard. It is much easier to use with the bag bellows. You can still use a 150 with the bag bellows the extend to somewhere between 200 and 250mm so would cover the OP's lens selections. The only thing is they have gone sticky to the touch but are still perfectly light tight.
The Canham bellows on the DLC and MQC are superb for working over a wide extension range. I suspect part of the short extension capability is due to the lens board being 110mm x 110mm and thus the bellows is tapered. The VX125 has a huge lens board and uses a non-tapered bellows.
A bellows using the same material as the Canham but following the design of the VX125 would probably work almost as well as a the original VX125 bellows. With a 300mm max extension for the VX125, a bag bellows should be a very good choice.
Dynatect may be able to duplicate the original Toyo urethane bellows. Send them the old one to evaluate. Their standard bellows is very thin and flexible. I had one made for my 4X5 Robos. More expensive than Rudy, but worth it I think.
https://dynatect.com/categories/prot...overs/bellows/
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