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Michael Erlewine

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Fuji GFX-Ready Bellows System
« on: February 23, 2017, 16:50:15 »
This is the Novoflex BALPRO system, with the Novoflex BALPRO APRO board, inset with the Novoflex NIK-A adapter (to Nikon cameras), with the Fotodiox GFX>Nikon adapter, ready to go, waiting only for the Fuji GFX to arrive.

This will work for the various industrial lenses that take a bellows, like the various enlarger lenses, Large-Format lenses in a variety of formats (Copal-0, Copal-1, M39, etc.) Since this system already takes the Nikon camera, the Fotodiox GFX>Nikon adapter will just click on the adapter and we are ready to go.

If you wonder why I have it mounted on the Tilt/Shift end of the BALPRO, it is because Novoflex only geared the front standard (and not the rear standard), and to stack properly, we have to move the camera on the rear standard, while fixing the front standard. So, I reversed it and now move the front standard as if it were the rear standard, etc.
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Re: Fuji GFX-Ready Bellows System
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2017, 16:58:57 »
Looks nice, Michael.  Hope the peripheral potion of the image forming incident lights is not cut by the apparently narrow "throat" of the mount adapter.
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Re: Fuji GFX-Ready Bellows System
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2017, 18:16:58 »
Looks nice, Michael.  Hope the peripheral potion of the image forming incident lights is not cut by the apparently narrow "throat" of the mount adapter.

Exactly. We have to see. Also, there is no reason there won't be a GFX (wider throat) adapter coming along. NOt sure about wide-angle lenses, but for close-up work like I do, should be fine.
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