peterm1
Veteran
Thanks Richard. I do recall that it took some experimenting. I had a mirror on the opposite wall, so I set up the M3 on a tripod and carefully focused it using the same M3 as the point of focus. I then had to align my face with the camera so it was the same distance from the film plane mark on the camera to the mirror and back again. I knew it would be a little hit and miss so I ended up taking multiple shots just in case. But it was a pretty effective technique as it turns out and most of the shots worked focus wise (though in some, my pose was not optimal for other reasons). I am pretty sure I stopped down to f4 or f5.6 for depth of field to help ensure sufficient focus accuracy. Years later when I had a flatbed scanner, I scanned the photos, converted them to BW and it was then just a matter of reversing the image in the horizontal plane to eliminate the image reversal caused by mirroring (e.g otherwise I would be wearing the watch on the "wrong" hand and face symmetry could be slightly off given none of us have perfectly symmetrical features.)
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