Bellows Replacement Sources, 2012

[David Karp]

Jim Ormand made a beautiful bellows for my WP camera. Very satisfied.

[mdm]

The pictures don't really show how compact they fold, since they're taken from above- I'd quite like to get a set like yours that would compress to less than two inches, do you reckon yours would do that? Thanks for all the reviews-

No problem, maybe even 1 inch or slightly more.

[jb7]

No problem, maybe even 1 inch or slightly more.

Thanks David, thanks Ramiro, very useful information- and thanks for the picture, shows your judgement to be very even-handed...

So, light leaks- I presume that the leaks are at the junction of the fabric and the frames, and that the integrity of the bellows themselves is not compromised? I know it's difficult to predict with new bellows, but old bellows often fail on the exposed corners- is there any possibility that this might be a weak area? Especially since they must be relatively light weight to fold so small-

And one last thing- your pleats look like they might be about an inch wide or so- maybe more? Mine will need to be 20-22mm, so I'm guessing that I might use up the rest of my two inch tolerance with that specification- perhaps even increase the price quite a bit-

Again, thanks all for the useful info...

[Ramiro Elena]

I am getting ready to go into action with this when I noticed some kind of black tape is used in the last video of the Deardorf installation.

Anyone know what kind it might be? I am also trying to decide if I will use double sided tape like in the video or plain rubber cement.

[mdm]

I didnt use any on mine, Ramiro.

[Ramiro Elena]

Thanks David. I am probably making this more complicated than it actually is but I would hate to have to go backwards and re-do things.