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Re: [OM] Re: Bellows, etc.

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: Bellows, etc.
From: "Rand E." <rtomcala@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:14:46 -0400
Michael,
  It is most gratifying to see you break surface here on the list again.
Rand E.

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"Michael A. Covington" wrote:
> 
> | >Has anyone had any experience putting a non-Olympus (specifically, N*kon)
> | >camera on an Olympus bellows?
> |
> | Is there any specific reason you need to use an Olympus bellows --
> | other than the obvious "that's what I got?"
> 
> 80/4 1:1 Zuiko.  No other lens like it!
> 
> | The (for lack of a better term) opposite T-mount -- that looks like a
> | camera -- is pretty difficult to come by.
> 
> Right; it's called a T-flange and that's what I hope to locate.
> 
> I did think of another way to put a N*kon body on an OM bellows.  In place
> of the removable camera mount on the bellows, which is 52 mm in diameter, I
> think I can put any camera with a 2-inch telescope eyepiece tube adapter.
> 
> | BTW: what the heck is a world-reknown astrophotographer doing with a
> | bellows, anyway? :-)
> 
> Slide duplication, my secret superpower!  Many astro slides are underexposed
> and/or have low contrast.  Duplication peps them up nicely.
> 
> Clear skies,
> 
> Michael A. Covington  /  AI Center  /  The University of Georgia
> Author, ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE AMATEUR
> http://www.CovingtonInnovations.com/astro  <><

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