Zeiss Jena Tessar 300 5.6 Info required for 10" x 8" wet plate photography.

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Originally Posted by Mark Sawyer

Any of the lenses you listed will be fine for what you want, and the only difference you'll see between images made from those and an old Rapid Rectilinear, or other old lens would be a slight increase in contrast thanks to the anti-reflective coating. The signature of wet plate will overwhelm any subtle signatures from the lenses; the only lens signatures you'll notice in wet plate are from lenses with a very heavy signature, like a fast Petzval or a soft pictorial lens.

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Thanks for the info that's great, happy to hear I don't need to spend a couple of hundred quid on a lens.

If anyone has any info on using salt water for any part of the wet plate process be great to hear or any printing out processes for that matter, do salt prints require salt water?!

You could probably mix hypo or rapidfix with saltwater instead of water... But don't do with with KCN. Actually, just don't use KCN.

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Originally Posted by Jason Greenberg Motamedi

You could probably mix hypo or rapidfix with saltwater instead of water... But don't do with with KCN. Actually, just don't use KCN.

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What's KCN?!

https://www.google.com/search?q=KCN

K is potassium , C is carbon and N is nitrogen.

So KCN is Potassium Cyanide.

A Long Time Ago I actually saw someone make a mistake in the lab and get a whiff of Cyanide gas. He dropped like a stone and the building was evacuated. Fortunately he recovered. But it was a dramatic close call.

Danny, take 1 L of this salt whater and bring it to 100 C; than imagine that all this resting particles and elements like salt and fish dung would cover your print.

Normally best to do is using Aqua deminerale instead of salty solutions.

Ritchie

I have a great idea. Just take a couple of gallons of sea water and boil it and catch the condensate in a separate bottle. Then use the condensate to mix your chems. You should be fine.��

Hi,

something to be aware of..

http://www.largeformatphotography.in...10-Photography

Often to be seen on Ebay. Not always accurately described. :(

"Caveat emptor" as the Romans advised....

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Originally Posted by Jim Andrada

I have a great idea. Just take a couple of gallons of sea water and boil it and catch the condensate in a separate bottle. Then use the condensate to mix your chems. You should be fine.��

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Good idea, thanks for suggesting, I'll look into salt printing too as an option.

Thanks