A good introduction to bellows making?

[rwyoung]

I have Barry's book and his method does work. I've done one small tapered one with it.

I was thinking about trying to use some vinyl wall-paper as the material. Maybe spray paint one side black.

[numnutz]

Has anyone any idea what the title of the book that was copied to be sold on ebay is and if possible the author.

nn

[Peter De Smidt]

Romney, who produced a bunch of books on camera repair, had one on bellows making.

[Mike Fiction]

Would this make a good outer material?

http://apps.webcreate.com/ecom/catal...roductID=17579

[Mike Fiction]

And is this the stuff for the inner material?
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/sc_pro...t_id=&pid=1307

[Peter De Smidt]

Would this make a good outer material?

http://apps.webcreate.com/ecom/catal...roductID=17579

I can't tell. Thickness and pliability is key. Get some samples.

[robert fallis]

You can get curtain material, which is made for home cinemas it is
chemical coated on one side to make it light proof, and then use black cloth for the inner liner, so you have no trouble with scatter light I got twenty metres of ebay for a fiver plus postage, which was more than the cloth cost

bob

ps. it comes in useful to black out the darkroom too....

[Shen45]

I just measured some blackout [ivory coloured] curtain lining and it is .013". It is totally light tight as well.

[Glenn Thoreson]

Blackout curtain material is pretty good, as is the stuff some changing bags are made of. I just murdered a changing bag to make an 8X10 tapered bellows and it worked pretty good for a first try. I had no pattern. I just constructed a card board form in the shape of a "pyramid" and layed it up around that.

[EuGene Smith]

Peter mentioned the bellows making book by Ed Romney - it is a good bellows making manual and is still available. Ed's widow, Sara, now sells his camera repair manuals, tools, etc. at www.edromney.com Just scroll down through her opening page until you see a picture of the camera repair tool kit, then click the "booklist" link below the photo to find the bellows making manual.