New WP Camera! Can I Iron The Bellows?

[Richard K.]

Just picked up this beauty for a song (Ob-La-Di). All it needs is a bit of bellows work. Do you think I can just iron them back into coherent pleatedness? Please click on the thumb nail!

[Bill_1856]

The original "Bag Bellows?"

[Oren Grad]

It's the spontaneous and unrehearsed look.

(Hmm, maybe it would fit with the "destruction" theme...)

[Kino]

No need; just run over your lens with the car a few times and you'll adjust the optical path to match the bellows...

[Jim Noel]

Get a new bellows!

[Carsten Wolff]

Just seal all gaps and blow through the lensboard hole.....

[BarryS]

Fill 'em with helium--they'll puff out and the camera will be lighter.

[Scott Schroeder]

I think it looks like this.
Where it used to look like this
A little way down the page here.

[Richard K.]

Naw, that's a completely different camera! For one thing mine faces right whereas their's faces left!

Nice detective work Scott!

[Oren Grad]

I think it looks like this.
Where it used to look like this
A little way down the page here.

Richard and Scott, thanks - not only a good chuckle, but that's a terrific companion to the indispensable "Field Cameras of the United States" site.