Large-format self portraits are actually quite difficult to do, so the concerned look in the second picture is real but also unfortunate. 🙂
I think the worst part is that between focusing and actually taking the picture, there’s so much stuff to do during which I completely forgot what will be in frame or what I am doing with my life in general.
Still, didn’t turn out so bad, for an ~8 second exposure time. On Ilford MGRC paper, with the 00-filter behind the lens, at ISO 1.6, negative inverted digitally.
This is with a different lens this time, a 1895 or so Goerz Doppel-Anastigmat Serie III (the Goerz Dagor, just before it was called Dagor). 240 mm, f6.8 (but noted on the lens as “4.5” because, as the people at Goerz thought at the time, why not be wild and free and just print funny little fantasy numbers on the lens, that also look like f-numbers but aren’t). So this is much more light than my f18 Rodenstock, and also much more lens (symmetrical triplet) and thus much more sharp and much more expensive. Also fits the camera better since that is also rather well-made.
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