Re: auto bellows + LX

[Dan Scott]

On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 12:50  PM, Feroze Kistan wrote:

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Subject: Re: auto bellows + LX

Feroze,

It's your bellows, you rack it out as much as you want. If the
extension bothers you, subtract the length of the extension from the
total extension of the bellows. Neither the film nor the lens will care.

Dan Scott

Hi Dan,
So the distance from the lens to camera has no effect on the image quality
on the size of the object on the film?

Feroze

The bellows is just an adjustable extension tube. There is a minimum length that it will add to any lens, where the bellows is compressed as tightly as it can be. Adding a 10mm extension tube to the bellows adds 10mm to this minimum length. Other than that, everything is the same--> if your 50mm lens is 150mm from you camera there is no difference between 10mm of extension tube + 140mm of bellows or 150mm of bellows, the image will be the same with either setup.

Hth,

Dan Scott