Show off your 120 folder!

The ebay ad said this might have been the last leather bellows made since 2012. He knows of no-one who makes leather bellows.

You can ask Sandeha Lynch though. Last I heard from him he was still making bellows for small cameras.
 
Show off your 120 folder!

My new Voigtlander Bessa RF. I bought very cheap in eBay and I have restored it. Now is working perfectly and for me one of the best cameras ever made.
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EDIT: oops, now I remember why I had not posted this photo, before... being that the Tourists are 620 cameras! Well, they are 120, in my mind, since that is what we buy to re-roll, and shoot in 620 cameras.


Tourist II x two by wwfloyd, on Flickr
 
narsuitus said:

Bellows Repair by Narsuitus, on Flickr
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Whoa. Does that allow the bellows to flex?

I bought some "liquid tape" to fix an old Polaroid bellows, but it's so stiff I dare not fold the bellows in - I have to leave the bed extended.

I have a beautiful old bellows camera that's about 90 years old and it has billions of pinholes. I'd love to get that fixed without attempting to replace the bellows.
 
Pál_K said:
Whoa. Does that allow the bellows to flex?

I bought some "liquid tape" to fix an old Polaroid bellows, but it's so stiff I dare not fold the bellows in - I have to leave the bed extended.

I have a beautiful old bellows camera that's about 90 years old and it has billions of pinholes. I'd love to get that fixed without attempting to replace the bellows.
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If you intend for your bellows repair to last, make all fixes inside the bellows, not on the outside. That will only give you a temporary fix. Use proper repair materials to boot.
 
This was the camera my aunt bought her husband-to-be for his twenty-first birthday. The label inside is the chemist where she worked at the time and it cost her fifteen pounds, including the case. I was given it a few weeks ago and it's a belter!

Billy Boy One by Russell W Barnes, on Flickr

Here's a pic I took with it when I was out playing... FP4+ in ID-11 1+1.

Arcade by Russell W Barnes, on Flickr
 
wjlapier said:
The eBay ad said this might have been the last leather bellows made since 2012. He knows of no-one who makes leather bellows.
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http://www.custombellows.co.uk

"Not only do Custom Bellows manufacture for some of the most important names in the modern mass production photographic world, we also offer a service providing individual custom-made new and replacement bellows, particularly for antique and "collectable" cameras."

That probably means leather bellows.
 
Deklari said:
First, I have to replace old bellow.
I have use just two Lego wheels to put 120 film there:)
and two wood rails for re-size it to 60 mm. Also added a film pressure plate.
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Finally life again after 113 years :)
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I figured I should learn a little more about what folders people on the forum use and I came across this post.

Surely the ingenuity here gets a bonus point and possibly some kind of medal? I mean, LEGO WHEELS :D

And what a beautiful piece of history to revive.
 
This now reconditioned Agfa Billy Record II came to me with the Solinar fitted to a Synchro-Compur.
It took me years to figure a safe way to unfreeze the front focusing cell. - Upon which time, it received the needed new bellows.


BillyRec2 by Andrew in Austin, Texas, on Flickr

Without a doubt, a second tier medium format folder - with that said, when folded it's a very compact package for the format.
With regards to looks, the camera still has a bit of the Art Deco charm of Agfa's earlier versions of the Record..
 
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