Very happy about this one, the photo too 🙂
This is a chemically reversed paper negative, on 18×24 cm @ilfordphoto MGRC paper. Paper negatives don’t have a lot of exposure latitude at the best of times, and the reversal makes that even worse, so this might have very well ended up all black or all overexposed. It’s a bit of a miracle that it’s pretty much spot on.
I shoot these with the Ilford 00-filter taped behind the lens, which makes the contrast a bit less extreme, but it’s still a very blunt instrument. The filter also decreases effective ISO, and the reversal needs overexposure so it all taken together comes out to ISO 0.2 in sunlight, i.e. 500 times less sensitive than ISO 100 film. It’s also veryyy sensitive to blue and UV light which is difficult to see with human eyes so it’s always a bit of a gamble. This one was 4 seconds, which is still kind of practical. Anything in shadow quickly goes into the minutes though. Anything with artificial light is more like hours, unless you light your apartment with UV lights. You do you.
Shot with a ~1870s wooden tailboard camera, Goerz Doppel-Anastigmat 18×24 (240 mm) lens at f6.8 (lens marking “4.5” but that’s in an ancient Goerz-specific unit because they’re just fun like that).
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