Yes, my middle name is "cheap". From what I understand, the compendiums sold don't offer any advantage over a barn-door DIY compendiums. See Robert Zeichner's article on making a Barndoor Shade.
He uses the Barn Doors from a Pepper 100 fresnel light, but that's too small for my 90/4.5 lens, so I'd need a Pepper 200. That goes for $200. Then there's Tiffen Adapter's I'd need.
Also, I have a Linhof Kardan Supercolor. I haven't seen any compendiums available for it.
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