BlackJacket Mods
You may have seen my previous posts about the BlackJacket which is a ‘high tech’ dark cloth for large format cameras. Since I’ve been using my black jacket on the ebony for some I found that there was still some light leakage around the sides of the groundglass caused by the ‘neck’ of the BlackJacket not fitting flush around the bellows. Also, the velcro on the inside of the neck that the BlackBag attaches to is both fairly weak and also not positioned particularly well for the layout of the ebony. In order to fix these I had to get the needle and thread out and also buy some new velcro and some elastic material.
The first photo shows the extra velcro I have added to the inside of the neck that will hold the BlackBag :-
The velcro has only been connected on one edge as this makes it easier to grab and lift towards the ground glass. You can see the positioning better in this photo :-
The second picture shows how the BlackBag fits onto this velcro :-
It might even make sense to replace the velcro on the bag as the ‘hook and loop’ type velcro isn’t as strong as normal velcro.
The next picture shows the addition I have made to the neck of the BlackJacket to allow me to make the neck more light tight.
This allows the closing of the neck as below :-
Using this makes the whole shebang considerably more light tight and isn’t much extra effort to use and my Ebony feels snug as a bug in a rug.. 
