On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, John Cremati wrote:
Has anyone tried using Cordura Nylon as the outer layer in bellows
fabrication ? It is supposedly the toughest fabric on earth and is
water proof...( they are using it to make Fishing Waders...) The
deener 160 blend seems to be there thinnest
What is the longest f.l. process lens you folks have heard of or have in
your collection?
I would like to know what exists for the 23 x 35 bellows coming my way,
rather than looking for something that doesn't exist.
I could experiment with single elements for camera work, but enlarging would
Hi Wayde,
I had a couple of questions on the camera that you built...
Do you remember what type of Cordura that you
used? Did you use it for both inside and outside .Is your bellows very
stiff? how deep were the folds ?/How does it collapse and what did you
use for stiffners...
A long bellows isn't necesarily for a long lens. Close-up photography
requires longer bellows length.
Where your Nikkor 55 Micro needs only another 55mm (approx. 2 inches) to
reproduce 1:1 a 150mm 4x5 lens (6 inches) requires a bellows extension equal
to the focal length to accomplish the same
:O)
OK -
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I'm still chuckling.
Murray
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What is the longest f.l. process lens you folks have heard of or have in
your collection?
This one was just on eBay;
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=1385213279
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Only three of the suppliers had websites, and one link didn't work. The
other two didn't appear to sell to consumers. I was only able to find one
website, http://www.rockywoods.com/, selling the material to consumers, and
they only had 400 and 1000 denier thicknesses. The 400 denier was only
