View Poll Results: How much bellows do you need for your favourite 11x14 lenses?

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  • 200-300mm

    1 5.88%
  • 300-400mm

    2 11.76%
  • 400-500mm

    6 35.29%
  • 500-600mm

    1 5.88%
  • 600-700mm

    0 0%
  • 700-800mm

    3 17.65%
  • 800-900mm

    4 23.53%
  • over 900mm

    3 17.65%
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Thread: Typical Bellows Draw - 11x14 Lenses

  1. #11
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    Re: 11x14 Lenses- Typical Bellows Draw

    Quote Originally Posted by jb7 View Post
    I should have mentioned, perhaps we could have responses from those who shoot 7x17 too, since the film area is quite similar, and it might produce a broader sample
    I'm actually less interested in longer lenses for 7x17, so it wouldn't change my answer in that direction. If anything, I could happily live with a shorter bellows for 7x17 - 700-800mm would be ample, and most of the time something shorter than that would be fine too.

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    Re: 11x14 Lenses- Typical Bellows Draw

    Since I do not use 11x14 and have only been contemplating it, I am not going to vote, obviously. But after all the thoughtful responses to this post of mine http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ortraits/page4 I have since mulled more and realize I probably would want the 'tween lens (as I called it) of 450mm as my max focal length... simply because the bellows draw on 600mm would make things so difficult in so many ways in the studio.

    But really what all the thinking has done, I believe, is to convince me not to get into 11x14.

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    Re: 11x14 Lenses- Typical Bellows Draw

    Disappointed to hear that John...

    Though glad to hear you might have populated one of the centre options-
    Any more 11x14 users out there?

  4. #14
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    Re: 11x14 Lenses- Typical Bellows Draw

    hi jb7

    i didn't see this thread when it was originally done ...
    i have a wollensak 13-20-24" lens and the favorite configuration for my 11x14 is the 20" ( which is about 508mm )
    i don't shoot outside, its a big studio camera so it is mostly portraits ...

    john

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    Re: 11x14 Lenses- Typical Bellows Draw

    Thanks John- I think I'd like your lens...

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