Spurred on by Black Magic Design having presented their new camera sporting bellows, I've finally got around to modifying my Hasselblad bellows mattebox into a hood. Since I used the rear filter slot as a mount, it no longer qualifies as a matte box - but the original is left totally intact and conversion is reversible.
Shown extended to FOV of Panasonic 14mm pancake; will fast-adjust to any focal length.
Next, upper French flag and front letterbox matte. I'm hoping it will be seriously dark in there!
My bellows cost $50. See similar on eBay
or Mamiya models at http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_nkw=mamiya+bellows+-macro+-focus&LH_PrefLoc=2&_npmv=3
[Edit 3 June: added much smaller file-size pics, PNGs too big, sorry!]
Thanks for post.
Looks really cool.
Also very usable are rubber hoods.
I'm just discovering other advantages besides killing much more unwanted stray light:
I have exactly the same bellows, been meaning to do something like this for a while. Is it a pain to focus with the bellows on?
Is it a pain to focus with the bellows on?
Added my drawing for steel 16:9 matte. Sent this away for laser cutting quotes. If I get a good price maybe others might be interested..
If my matte prototype works, I could even send the CAD files of both matte and bracket off to somebody who can run off a batch of these.
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