I was shooting outside with my kit indoors today. I started with a 75mm lens so I had the bag bellows on my P2, and then at some point I decided I wanted a tight view so I went in to get my 360. Only once I got back to the camera did I realize that I hadn't thought to switch the bellows, so I figured eh, what the hell, why not just see if the bag will extend far enough.
And interestingly, it did. I ended up needing to put the standards all the way to the edges of the standard rail, plus moving the rear standard back a little farther with fine focus, and the bag bellows accommodated it with room to spare (plus some significant rise/fall/shift on both standards). So given that, why is it that the standard bellows type is the standard? It seems like a single bag bellows can pretty comfortably accommodate all the way from wide angle down to a fairly long focus lens, but the standard bellows can't match the wide-angle performance. Is there some disadvantage to the bag bellows that I'm missing, because it seems like it would be a handy thing to just use all the time, unless you need really long extension
Bookmarks