Mongo said:I've always loved the look of the Fatif cameras (even the ones with black knobs), but I can't imagine what those bellows would cost to replace.
roy said:To me it looks more like a 7x5 rather than a 10x8 but I have no idea what the text means.
medform-norm said:well, all you need is some craft, the right fabric and a good sewing machine...and maybe a bit of glue.
PS I take it you don't drive an oldtimer car for the same reason?
medform-norm said:you are right, wrong conversion of cm - inch. It's a 13 x18 cm film size. But the company did make an 8x 10 if I remember.
Did you try babelfish to translate the text? I haven't, but I can sort of figure out what's going on, although unable to translate fast. Neither English nor Italian are my mother tongue.
23.5 lbs for an 8x10???? My Lotus 12x20 weighs that much...David A. Goldfarb said:Whoa, sold for $500! Frank, when you need to pay for the back surgery from lugging that thing around,
Mongo said:That's an interesting leap, Norm, from my comment about the bellows being expensive to replace to why I'd drive a newer car.
Mongo said:But I think there's more to the Fatif bellows than just simple card stock and fabric...in fact I'd love to know how they're made. Those rounded-corner bellows have always fascinated me. I've not seen any in person, but I've always assumed that their either made with some sort of reinforcements around the folding points or the fabric has somehow been formed to the final shape. Perhaps someone who owns bellows like these can chime in with more information.
Dan Fromm said:Um, Norm, about that there Maserati Mexico. A while ago I was schmoozing with Charlie Barringer about cars we'd owned. It came out that at one time he commuted across Philadelphia -- up and down the dread Schuylkill Expressway -- in a Mexico. He told me that even though he drove it for a couple of years he regarded it as very unsafe. If the windows were open while the car was in motion, exhaust fumes were sucked in through the trunk, and the driver was slowly, um, gassed.
Dan Fromm said:If the windows were open while the car was in motion, exhaust fumes were sucked in through the trunk, and the driver was slowly, um, gassed.
I think it'd be easy to get hurt on the "Sure-Kill" Expressway regardless of what you're driving!Dan Fromm said:Um, Norm, about that there Maserati Mexico. A while ago I was schmoozing with Charlie Barringer about cars we'd owned. It came out that at one time he commuted across Philadelphia -- up and down the dread Schuylkill Expressway -- in a Mexico. He told me that even though he drove it for a couple of years he regarded it as very unsafe. If the windows were open while the car was in motion, exhaust fumes were sucked in through the trunk, and the driver was slowly, um, gassed.
medform-norm said:And when in doubt, you can always send it to China, the country of master copiers! Did you know they copied a complete car by taking it apart to its last screw and reproduced every single thing? I think it was some French car, Peugeot, Citroên?
Best, Norm
Mongo said:I think that's how they came up with the Shen-Hao...just got ahold of an Ebony and went to town copying it.
Seriously...I'd love to get my hands on a set of rounded bellows for a while to see how they're made. In my mind, every structure I can think of is pretty hard to imagine making without the aid of some sophisticated machinery...but I may just be missing something obvious.
(I'm working on 2 6x18 cameras right now. One will use bellows and the other will use a hand-made helical focusing mount. I think the rounded bellows would look cool as all hell on the one with bellows, if I could just figure out an easy way to make them.)
Be well.
Dave
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