With all due respect to Barry, I bought his pamphlet and I saw some problems with his method, especially for the tapered bellows. It might work for a large bellows where a bit of slop wouldn't matter, but it wasn't very precise and I think you'd definitely have problems in a case where your dimensions were critical (e.g. on a smaller camera).
I bought Barry's book as well and I agree with you on all points. It is a good book, especially for pulling all of the information together. The real value of the book would come into play if you plan to make more than one copy of the same bellows, as he spends the vast majority of the time on using a CAD program to do the layout, and then having the resulting layout printed professionally. At present I don't have a CAD program and anything I do will be a one-off, so I'm not using that. Still, it's a good book and I'm glad I bought it.
Nathan
Hello jsfyfe,
Thank you for the links. Columbia Organ Leathers looks like just the ticket. The only supplier of thin leather that I had found was in the UK, and the price with shipping was prohibitive for lower end camera restoration.
Cheers,
Clarence
With all due respect to Barry, I bought his pamphlet .
Bellows are a bitch ... I'm glad I made one, but from now on - hell no!
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