[pure-silver] Re: Light Leaks with Large Format

Frank

You got a good point there.

I will repair them just to try that, but new once should be made from a
different material, they should be made by Camera Bellows and maybe they
should be of a different design.

The current double-tapered bellows are too thick, squeeze together too tight
and are consequently overburdened. I think the reason for the double-taper
was rigidity, but I think that the new bellows materials used by Camera
Bellows are more rigid anyway. Why not use single-tapered bellows, which
makes it cheaper, and while at a re-design, drop a few folds, losing a bit
of extension but gaining a lot durability?

I can discuss this with Camera Bellows tomorrow. And I will tell Linhof too!





Regards



Ralph W. Lambrecht

http://www.darkroomagic.com









On 2005-11-30 21:46, "Frank Filippone" <red735i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yours failed in the corners.  Mine failed with the rubberized gook on the
> outside of the material flaking off.
>  
> I once asked, and the gang here in the US think that 5 years is about the life
> expectancy...  At least that is what I remember....
>  
> $600 every 5 years.... must be a professional point of view.. us amateurs (
> the ONLY customers left for LF) do not count!
>  
> BTW, someone just posted elsewhere ( I forget where) that he had a bellows
> made by Camera Bellows and it was done very well.  He thought the material
> used was like the original....
>  
> Why would any self respecting person get new material as bad as the original
> when there are other choices?  The Canham material, while not time tested as
> much as a Linhof, is certainly pliable and has the potential to not have the
> feature mode that I experienced.... So that is the way I am going... new
> Canham material put on by Camera Bellows of Birmingham....
>  
>  
>  
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>

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