Back in about 2001, I bought 100 sheets of Kodak HIS (B&W infra-red). I shot a couple of sheets and found out the Wisner leather bellows is horribly IR leaky. So the film sat in the freezer until I found a Wisner IR bellows on Ebay this spring.
I just spent a couple days to shooting a few sheets, oh maybe 8 sheets, on the North Shore of MN. I found the Wisner IR bellows:
-Was cracked (thanks ebay guy, fixed it with some wood glue)
-Needs a little sanding to improve the fit
-Cannot be folded up with the camera like an original leather bellows...it's too fat (just a little heads-up if anyone else picks up an IR bellows.) So the camera has to be set up and then the bellows installed.
The question I have is about focusing the lenses. I tried focusing on something in front of the main subject to increase the lens to film distance a bit and cranking the lens down to F22 to 32. Does anyone have a feel for how much (if any) you have to extend the focus? I have Rodenstock 150 and 210 Sironars, and a Schneider 110.
Jay
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