500mm Tele Xenar 13x18 Norma Homemade Norma Bellows Support by Nokton48, on Flickr
The extra long 5x7 Norma Custom Bellows tends to sag a bit sometimes, so I built up a permanent solution. I cut down three Norma Auxiliary Standards, using my Little Machine Shop Electric Band Saw. I was left with an 6" long adjustable rectangular long piece, to which I drilled a hole on each end. Then I inserted large steel lag bolts with circular round tops, with lag nuts which can be adjusted quite a bit up and down. So this slides laterally/swings and has rise and fall as well, pretty adjustable.
I made three of these units, cleaning out my Norma parts box. Never throw anything like this away.
You can see the new unit just to the right of the Norma tripod block. Somebody removed all the green paint on this one it's black but still Norma
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