A splendid portrait of a splendid subject. The humanity in the man's face makes the image quality worthwhile.
I don't know much about the characteristics of Petzval lenses. I take it that the very small area of really sharp focus is due to curvature of field rather than selective focus/wide aperture?
Kendrick Pereira
Thanks. Actually, both are at play. A 300mm lens approaching 1:1 on 8X10 film has paper thin dof and the petzval has the curved field thing happening too.
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