Hello,

I am trying to hack my way into LFP.

I talked to the guy that develops my rolls yesterday, and he said that to adjust focus on a LF camera, you need a magnifying lens, and also, to calculate aperture/shutter, you need to keep into account the length the bellows are extended at.

On the other hand, reporters in the 30's used rangefinder LF cameras, (no magnifying lens I suppose), and also I can't fathom a reporter calculating the square root of the lenght of the bellows when photographing a shooting or similar misdeed.

I am thinking about cameras like pacemaker crown graphic, buschman pressman etc.

So, how did they do it? I presume that very exact focus is not paramount for action photos, and you can also get by with the sunny f16 rule, but adjusting for length of bellows?

thanks

piero