On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
My personal
preference is to adapt to M39 and use an enlarger lens (flat
If you can conmvice
the cmaera to use a 'dumb' lens (no automation) and
an get an adapter to a screw mount, things become a lot simpler.
My Panasonic M4/3 has an option called "shoot without lens"! which is
their wording for 'dumb' lens.
If that's the genuine Exakta Large bellows, keep
it unmodified and find a
Varex :-). If it's a 3rd party thing, you'll often find that the lens and
camera flanges are separate parts fixed to the standards with 4 screws.
It's easy to repalce them with the ones you want.
Mostly I use a Kopil Bellowsmat. Not as well made as the Nikon PB4, but
more convenient. It's hard to find the Bellowsmat with any mount other
than Exakta, so I've bought a few cheap (as in beer) Kopil bellows of
other models with other mounts to swap their mounts with the Bellowsmats.
Now I need to get rid of some non-Bellowsmat Kopil bellows that now have
Exakta mounts. When I can get access to a lathe, I'll modify M4/3 mount
adapters for the things that I need them for.
If the focus is changing so much from one frame to another, then it calls
for placing the fiche between glass.