bellows for large format camera

Step 5 Finished

and there you have it a bellows ready to be used on a camera project
this bellows will compress to about 1 inch or stretch easily to 10 and relaxes at 7 inches just glue or staple it to the front and rear standards of your camera and your good to go
total cost for this project was about 3 dollars and that will get you 2 bellows this size and enough leftover hockey tape to do 10 more at least
my next contri will be a pinhole camera made from one of those bellows and some old 8x10 photo paper boxes . then perhaps ill show how i made the replica field camera in the title pic.

any questions ? bring em!
len

Comments

[polerix]

great instructable. works as displayed.

[bigbadd]

Lennyb, how water resistant is this material? I am interested in building a field camera and the one you have pictured looks like a jewel but I would like whatever I build to stand the weather. thank's bb

[lennyb]

lol im not sure how i missed this question and even though its 2 years late here goes. it not very waterproof at all but if you were to varnish the paper it would be better. maybe liquid latex might be a better choice though as the varnish will make the bellows brittle. sorry for not responding before this.