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

[DannyTreacy]

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.

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?!