Arg6442
20-Jan-2019, 09:20
Hello everyone!
For the last few months, I've been putting my new Burke & James 5x7 through its paces. I've discovered that I absolutely love the focal length of my 90MM Super Angulon. Stopped down to f/64, the lens looks like it could provide ample movements.
However, given the long, not-very-supple bellows, I can't even focus the lens to infinity without loosening the standards and letting the rise go wherever it wants to go (they even tighten up when using a 180 with movements. For a few days, I've been devising a solution to this. It involves making a smaller version of a bag bellows such as this one (http://www.foto-net.de/net/dyo/gross_ww.html), and then cutting the camera's original bellows at around 2/3 of the way to the front standard and attaching the bag to the bellows on one end and the front standard on the other. This would leave me with something vaguely simmilar to the attached photograph (a linhof WA bellows).
In theory, this should get rid of the tightness when the camera is at a short focus and allow me to do fairly easy movements. This also wouldn't restrict my focal length options. I'll never use anything more than a 210 (and even then, I'm not sure), so maintaining part of the bellows will allow me to draw out. Since the bag bellows wouldn't be enormous, It also wouldn't be too much of an issue when folding up.
Can anyone think of any major reason why this wouldn't work or shouldn't be attempted?
If everything goes well, I'll post an update once its done.
For the last few months, I've been putting my new Burke & James 5x7 through its paces. I've discovered that I absolutely love the focal length of my 90MM Super Angulon. Stopped down to f/64, the lens looks like it could provide ample movements.
However, given the long, not-very-supple bellows, I can't even focus the lens to infinity without loosening the standards and letting the rise go wherever it wants to go (they even tighten up when using a 180 with movements. For a few days, I've been devising a solution to this. It involves making a smaller version of a bag bellows such as this one (http://www.foto-net.de/net/dyo/gross_ww.html), and then cutting the camera's original bellows at around 2/3 of the way to the front standard and attaching the bag to the bellows on one end and the front standard on the other. This would leave me with something vaguely simmilar to the attached photograph (a linhof WA bellows).
In theory, this should get rid of the tightness when the camera is at a short focus and allow me to do fairly easy movements. This also wouldn't restrict my focal length options. I'll never use anything more than a 210 (and even then, I'm not sure), so maintaining part of the bellows will allow me to draw out. Since the bag bellows wouldn't be enormous, It also wouldn't be too much of an issue when folding up.
Can anyone think of any major reason why this wouldn't work or shouldn't be attempted?
If everything goes well, I'll post an update once its done.