Bill,
Sounds like you got a decent bellows as long as it doesn't leak light.
To check it, just put your head inside the bellows, hold your hand over the
open end and look at the sun. If you can't see the sun, the bellows will be
OK! (:>)
Brian P. Huber
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> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bill Brooks
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 10:38 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Bellows Question
>
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> I'll try to take some shots of it over the holidays...
>
> It's got a 14cm throw (marked on the right side), and
> the mag ratios are marked on the left side.
>
> When I tried it in the store, the lens I used was a beaten
> up 50mm Macro that had a 25mm extention tube on it.
> THAT was the problem with it holding the aperature in
> place.
>
> When the bellows has just a lens on the end of it, and
> not attached to a body, the DOF preview button works,
> and the (for lack of a better word for it) take-up pin and the
> body side actuates the iris just fine...when attached to the
> -2sp that was in the store, it didn't work...I'll try it next on a
> body of mine that doesn't have film in it...the next time I have
> a body with no film in it >;)
>
> oh yes, and it do get dark in dere at full extension...
>
> Bill >; P
> "Life unfolds on a great sheet called Time (film)*,
> and once finished (developed)* is gone(here)* forever..."
> *provided ya have a good archival system in place.
>
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