Thought that might get your attention(!)

I found a spare monorail, and thought I'd cut one rail down make a couple of different lengths to make my GVII easier to pack and to carry around. Question is, which lengths to choose?

I figure that if I'm using the 90mm lens I can probably get away with a pretty short monorail, and just keep a longer one strapped to a tripod leg in case I need it.

The original monorail is 17" long, and gives a max bellows extension of 16". The spare rail is only 15" long. I'm tending towards keeping the 17-incher intact, and making the 15-incher into one 'handy' length and another 'shorty' purely for ultra-WA later on, possibly with a home-made bag bellows.

Just off the bat, which combination of lengths sounds like it might be the most flexible?

(For what it's worth, I've seen one cut down to 6-1/2" (to make the WA 'Stubby') and it's said to be long enough to focus a 90mm down to to 2 feet.)

Where would you cut?

(Don't try to stop me -- the chopsaw is rarin' to go!)

;-)