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I've had a Horseman 760 technical camera (6x9 fomat, like the Horseman VH and 970 but earlier) for a while and have mainly used it with wide to standard focal length lenses so the bellows extension I used was quite short. I racked it out to do a closeup the other day and found that the bellows are shot, brittle and paper thin. So I tried a repair using liquid tape which I've used before on my Toyo bellows. It fixed the light leaks but as it's quite viscous the bellows then became too big when fully compressed to fit in the camera body!
I didn't want to give up on the camera, I've got a couple of nice lenses for it including a Topcon 65mm wide angle and a 90mm Angulon medium wide, both of which I had serviced by MW. So I took a chance and dismantled the camera to see how the bellows are fixed on. It's an industrial quality camera so I'm glad to say it was relatively easy to dismantle and I got the bellows assembly out. So I've sent an email to Custom Bellows for a quote, might as well do the job properly.
I've attached a couple of pictures which sum up the proble. I'll let you know how this progresses.
Link to Topcon technical cameras...
https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Topcon_Horseman_Press
I didn't want to give up on the camera, I've got a couple of nice lenses for it including a Topcon 65mm wide angle and a 90mm Angulon medium wide, both of which I had serviced by MW. So I took a chance and dismantled the camera to see how the bellows are fixed on. It's an industrial quality camera so I'm glad to say it was relatively easy to dismantle and I got the bellows assembly out. So I've sent an email to Custom Bellows for a quote, might as well do the job properly.
I've attached a couple of pictures which sum up the proble. I'll let you know how this progresses.
Link to Topcon technical cameras...
https://camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Topcon_Horseman_Press