A few days another member here posted a link to a KickStarter from LOMO New York looking to produce a 21st century Petzval lens. While I don't own a period type lens, such as the Petzval, the following image was produced using the "wet plate collodion" method of photography. My lens is more modern, I think from the 1930's, it is shutterless which is convenient for wet plate since it has an ISO speed of 1. I don't have the fastest lens at f6.3 but it gets the job done, if I stopped down for sharper images I would be looking at like 40 sec exposures. This was taken at f6.3 for 13 seconds.
(self portrait of myself take this morning)
8x10 Alumintype
f6.3 - 13 seconds
(self portrait of myself take this morning)
8x10 Alumintype
f6.3 - 13 seconds
