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[zahc]

Picture folded

[roo_ster]

Wow that is something else.

[geronimotwo]

what film does it use?  do you have your first subject in mind?

[zahc]

It uses 120 or 220 film with the RB67 backs. It can also use 2.25x3.25 sheet film if you use sheet film holders or grafmatics.

I mostly take pictures of my kids right now. I haven't scanned any of my test shots yet.

[tokugawa]

That is a nice piece of work !

[zahc]

Really it's just a prototype made in my apartment. When I get a garage in a month or two I might make the full version which has rear tilt. The design is supposed to take lenses up to 210mm but the thinnest blackout fabric I could find was still thicker than proper bellows fabric and wouldn't fold with the lens so I had to hack 100mm off. There is a guy who repairs player pianos that sells rubberized bellows cloth that is .008" thick, but he knows what he has and wants $90/yard for the stuff. That would be against the point of cheapness.

[bedlamite]

Really it's just a prototype made in my apartment. When I get a garage in a month or two I might make the full version which has rear tilt. The design is supposed to take lenses up to 210mm but the thinnest blackout fabric I could find was still thicker than proper bellows fabric and wouldn't fold with the lens so I had to hack 100mm off. There is a guy who repairs player pianos that sells rubberized bellows cloth that is .008" thick, but he knows what he has and wants $90/yard for the stuff. That would be against the point of cheapness.

http://www.freestylephoto.biz/260110-Duvetyne-Commando-Cloth-Flame-Retardant-Darkroom-Black-Out-Cloth-1?cat_id=1603

Friend of mine made one out of this stuff a while back and didn't have a problem folding it.

[zahc]

Too thick; already tried. To make the long bellows work I need something like the thin stuff 35mm shutter curtains are made of, no more than .008" thick. Duvetyne is more like denim. It would work for more normal expansion ratios, like the one I ended up with anyway.

[tokugawa]

So were does the player piano guy get the fabric?

[roo_ster]

So were does the player piano guy get the fabric?

from the accordian fellow in milwaukee.

[230RN]

My highest regards for you.  I had a 9 X12 cm Zeiss Ikon with which I took many interesting pictures.  Had a rollback adaptor for 620 (or 120?) film, a film pack adaptor, and five cut sheet film holders.



Got broke and sold it for US$25 back a ways.  Last I looked, they were going for more than £600 in some English magazine.

Tried to fold a bellows at one point, that's a tricky and very precise operation.

Again, high regards and admiration!

Terry

[Scout26]

That's a beautiful piece you've made zahc. 

I do admire craftsmenship.  I have cousins (and ancestors) who are cabinet makers.   That gene was not passed on to me, or it's very, very, very regressive.

[Regolith]

I have cousins (and ancestors) who are cabinet makers.   That gene was not passed on to me, or it's very, very, very regressive.

I'm sure you'd be better at it than the morons who built the original cabinets in my parents' house...

They had one fall off the wall the other day. Might have had maybe 10 or 20lbs of stuff in it. The entire back ripped off; the builders had apparently put it together using staples (and particle board, and what might as well be cardboard) and had missed with damn near every single one.

Luckily everything in it was fabric, so it wasn't damaged.