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Just thought I'd post an update, I ended up buying a couple of boxes of J Lane dry plates which are currently manufactrured. Had some fun on the brighter days in Spring 2020 and shot a few genuinely really good photos with this camera.
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I'm curious about dry plate. Perhaps you could show something of the results and process?
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This is my favourite shot, from April 2020 in local countryside. I was using the J Lane 2ASA ortho plates, so the speed of the emulsion is very slow. In bright sunlight at f4.5 I was able to hand hold at 1/10s but I recommend most people will want to use a tripod.
Mr. Lane also makes "speed plates" at 25ASA which I intend to try soon as I have a box waiting for the right circumstances. These are also orthochromatic. I process them in a vintage Envoy plate processing tank which i load in a changing bag. That is fiddly, it holds 4 plates but getting them in the right position is tricky and I cracked one because I just couldn't get it correctly inserted. I develop for around 9 minutes in Ilford ID-11, wash with water then fix with Adofix P. At some point I'll regain access to my enlarger and printing stuff and will make contact prints, for now I scan on an Epson flatbed. |
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