This is from my new (very old) 5×7 Camera City View (by the Seneca Camera Co. of Rochester NY). The camera was made around 1906, but is on remarkably good shape. I will post a picture of the camera soon.
The film is Arista.edu 100.
The lens was a 180mm Caltar II.
The negative was stand developed in Agfa Rodinal 1:100 for 1 hour.
I took this picture on a Columbia Gorge trip with Gaia. We had stopped at a few of the waterfalls, and ended our trip as the sun was setting at exit 41, just beyond the Bonneville Dam. I had made an adapter lens board for the camera, and I wanted to see how light tight it was, so shooting directly into the sunset seemed like a good test. One negative had a little flare on it, but I can’t yet attribute it to the lens board. This negative turned out just fine.
The wind was blowing so hard that I had to pile equipment up around the tripod to keep it stable. I was left with the choice of whether to keep my shutter speed up, and accept some unwanted bokeh, or to attempt to get the entire image sharp, and add the risk of an entirely blurred negative. I split the difference. I opted for a little motion blur, and a little less Bokeh.
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