Hackney Downs
A second paper negative obtained from my Wallace Heaton Zodel quarter-plate camera. One second at f32. Suffering greatly from the inevitable high contrast of using Ilford Multigrade IV as a negative, along with the contrast of a bright sky skewing my metering, I was surprised to be able to tease this much of an image out of the negative, which looks like a silhouette. The edges of the negative seem to be in much sharper focus than the Hackney Empire image, for some reason I've yet to understand. The bad framing is down to resting the camera on a park bench for the one-second exposure.
Edit 15/12/10:
The lens panel isn't parallel to the film plane, which doesn't register so much at f32, but the Hackney Empire frame was shot at f4.5, which made it very noticable. For the Cornwall shots, I physically pushed the front standard forward in an attempt to make it parallel.
Hackney Downs
A second paper negative obtained from my Wallace Heaton Zodel quarter-plate camera. One second at f32. Suffering greatly from the inevitable high contrast of using Ilford Multigrade IV as a negative, along with the contrast of a bright sky skewing my metering, I was surprised to be able to tease this much of an image out of the negative, which looks like a silhouette. The edges of the negative seem to be in much sharper focus than the Hackney Empire image, for some reason I've yet to understand. The bad framing is down to resting the camera on a park bench for the one-second exposure.
Edit 15/12/10:
The lens panel isn't parallel to the film plane, which doesn't register so much at f32, but the Hackney Empire frame was shot at f4.5, which made it very noticable. For the Cornwall shots, I physically pushed the front standard forward in an attempt to make it parallel.