Zebra Tin Type

[Tin Can]

https://zebradryplates.com/how-to-use-zebra-dry-plate-tintypes/

[Tin Can]

Excellent documentation

I am impressed

Carry on!

[Rick L]

i think he is an impressive young man- waiting on my order

[Steven Tribe]

Any news about the result for these tin types?
He appears to be doing a “Jason L” offering of slow dry plates for the EU countries.

[Tin Can]

You reminded me

I just ordered 5X7

Never tried them

https://zebradryplates.com/product/zebra-4x5-dry-plate-tintypes/#



Any news about the result for these tin types?
He appears to be doing a “Jason L” offering of slow dry plates for the EU countries.

[Tin Can]

ZEBRA 5X7 Dry Tintype Plates

just arrived, well packed from Slovenia in 9 days USPS

I will use a couple at Giant City State Park

https://dnr.illinois.gov/parks/park.giantcity.html

[Tin Can]

Mr Zebra

Where are you?

Need your new products

but your website is a mess

[Ironage]

Very cool products! I will put an order in when it fits my budget.


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[jnantz]

I'm glad he fixed his website to give credit to rockland colloid, they brought the process back from the dead 40-50 years ago, some folks ( like me ) have been doing it since the 1980s + 90s ...
as Ecclesiastes said there's nothing new under the sun and all that ...


Very cool products! I will put an order in when it fits my budget.


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if you want to get the taste of it, without using up your sweet, perfect and professionally coated ( and more expensive than self coated ) zebra plates while you wait for them to be shipped from Europe ... you can easily buy some liquid emulsion ( they used-to sell it cheap at Freestyle in the "clearance" area 1Kg of Foma Emulsion for like 30$, B/H currently has fresh liquid light that's less than 40, might be regular price ) I always double coat with expired emulsion and /or liquid light ) or make some yourself if you have some silver nitrate lying around. the simplest emulsion I have made is 4 ingredients ( salt silver nitrate water and gelatin, and it takes about 20 mins to make it's unwashed so you'll have to use it on paper, and it's silver chloride slow recipe and instructions at light farm, search under Patten ) ... most silver gelatin can work with a those tintype developers, they bleach, stain and fog the dark tones of the the negative to produce a positive image ) .. you can coat the foma and rockland colloid &c stuff on glass metal or paper or plexiglass &c :) on paper they look beautiful hand colored. if you coat plates with min wax urethane as a binder ( as Rockland Colloid advises ) you will have a nice yellowish glow after the urethane ages... be advised, if you use the rockland style developer with his process, the developer sometimes gives whatever was exposed a green tinge to it like developing AZO / Silver Chloride papers in Dektol ... and sometimes when you put emulsion on a non porous material ( like glass or metal &c ) even if the subbing is perfect in every way, there is a chance years later after the plates are developed fixed dried &c the emulsion spalls and flakes off, at least it doesn't go down the drain once it hits the fixer like poorly subbed plates .. nothing lasts forever I guess ...

[Tin Can]

I quit


I'm glad he fixed his website to give credit to rockland colloid, they brought the process back from the dead 40-50 years ago, and some folks ( like me ) have been doing it since the 1980s + 90s ...
as Ecclesiastes said there's nothing new under the sun ..



he gives the recipe for the developers on his website, you can easily buy some liquid emulsion ( they used to sell it cheap at Freestyle in the "clearance" area 2Kg of Foma Emulsion for like 30$ ) or make some yourself ( it takes about 20 mins to make some simple emulsions) and they all can work as a tintype developer ) .. coat it on glass or paper or plexiglass and make them yourself :)
you won't have to worry about shipping ( which must be a lot from Slovenia, seeing glass weighs a TON ) ...
if you use the rockland style developer it sometimes has a green tinge to it like developing AZO / Silver Chloride papers in Dektol ...

[Tin Can]

Just ordered

MORE ZEBRA PRODUCTS

Go to Etsy as that is the only way to buy

[Tin Can]

I know this is THE 'wet plate' thread

It gets little traffic these days

Perhaps any plate any size?

as many historical PLATES were made small for soldiers to carry

I am shooting Dry Plate 4X5 5X7 NOW

I want to shoot 2X3 CDV cards

and use Mamiya or Linhof 2X3

in their plate holders

[jnantz]

Any news about the result for these tin types?
He appears to be doing a “Jason L” offering of slow dry plates for the EU countries.


you can easily buy some liquid emulsion ( they used-to sell it cheap at Freestyle in the "clearance" area 1Kg of Foma Emulsion for like 30$, B/H currently has fresh liquid light that's less than 40.

Steven

From what my European cohort tell me, the FOMA liquid emulsion is very inexpensive where you are, here in the states it's 2x the cost of the 8oz liquid light when it's not on clearance, from what I've been told in Denmark it is/was less than 40euros for the whole tub ( maybe covid changed that?). Have you used it? The 1Kg size comes with hardener, which you can put in your gelatin sub layer, and your final wash if you coat them on your own. if you coat some varieties of Japanese Papers with it, after they are waxed the paper is clear like glass, and put infront of something black you get the same visual entertainment as you would an ambrotype. I've been using some that is about 10 years old and it still seems OK... ( the gelatin hasn't broken down yet ). ( if you coat glass with it you will probably have to water it down to make it a little more runny, I've never used photo Flo with it but some people who coat glass put a little bit in their melted emulsion and swear by it ).

[Tin Can]

I am checking fit and finish

Jason burned me with his 8x 10 plate holder

Nothing fit


Steven

From what my European cohort tell me, the FOMA liquid emulsion is very inexpensive where you are, here in the states it's 2x the cost of the 8oz liquid light when it's not on clearance, from what I've been told in Denmark it is/was less than 40euros for the whole tub ( maybe covid changed that?). Have you used it? The 1Kg size comes with hardener, which you can put in your gelatin sub layer, and your final wash if you coat them on your own. if you coat some varieties of Japanese Papers with it, after they are waxed the paper is clear like glass, and put infront of something black you get the same visual entertainment as you would an ambrotype. I've been using some that is about 10 years old and it still seems OK... ( the gelatin hasn't broken down yet ). ( if you coat glass with it you will probably have to water it down to make it a little more runny, I've never used photo Flo with it but some people who coat glass put a little bit in their melted emulsion and swear by it ).

[jnantz]

sorry to hear that,
he and his partners sold oodles of those holders I don't think anyone else had that issue.
did you measure the interior of the holder and your plates? were they modern plates or vintage?
I've got bagmags, magazine camera septi and DDS holders and they can
all present problems when loading them with plates, in my case it's typically user error ...
seeing these holders and plates I make are standard sizes and sometimes vintage plates are sold in different
non original storage receptacles ...
ive never bought modern plate holders or used vintage plates
but I know the spring on the old holders and septi are a PITA.
book style I made myself work the best ..

[Tin Can]

Let me be clear.

J Lane Plates work well. I have a lot of them.

However his KS I bought is unusable. His own glass plates are correctly spec

But are too long and too thick for the holder I got directly from Jason

I collect holders of all size and type

[jnantz]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Tin Can]

More from ZEBRA

4X5 Plate Holder

and

Dry Plate TinType

The holder is PERFECT!

[Tin Can]

I think we need to consolidate all emulsion on glass and Tin

To simplify search

of course we all must bow to MOD judgement

Oren specifically is patient with me as I fade from all screens


I am finding and making NOS 1/4 Plate

This driven by my NOS 1/4 Plate acquisition today!

Mods are very good to us all!