MY new 20x20 inch wet plate camera has arrived

[alex from holland]

last weekend i collected my new 20x20" wet plate camera Adrew Donchev and his father build.
This thing is big and heavy but beautifully build !!

http://www.pbase.com/alex28/image/133671427.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/alex28/image/133671441.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/alex28/image/133671436.jpg

more pictures and info : http://collodion-art.blogspot.com/2011/04/my-new-20x20-inch-donchev-wet-plate.html

Alex

[darr]

Congratulations!!
Wow! She sure is beautiful!

Darr

[Armin Seeholzer]

Hi Alex this is a monster;--))))
But a good one congrats, Armin

[Monty McCutchen]

Photos Photos Photos

can't wait

Monty

[Scott --]

Egad!

[cosmicexplosion]

what did it cost, it looks tempting, look forward to some shots.

you sure do have a mother!

[Robert Skeoch]

wow that is something.
-rob

[William Whitaker]

Weather's nice; wish I were there!

[Dave Wooten]

any updates!

[Drew Bedo]

Is it to be used in a studio setting only, or will you be able to take it outside at all?

[alex from holland]

Last week i made my first testplate. Wasn't cleaned enough so the result wasn't so good.
But the camera works just great.
http://collodion-art.blogspot.com/2011/08/donchev-camera-is-deflowered.html
Yes it can be taken outside, but it is big and heavy.....

Alex

[threefoot]

Alex,

That is a beautiful and awesome camera! I ordered an 8x10 wet plate camera from Steve at Black Art Woodcraft and CAN'T WAIT to get it.

Charlie

[Drew Bedo]

Wow—what a beauty!

Just think about the connection with the past . . .William Henry Jackson took cameras into the wikderness with mules—and did he wet plate process in the mountains.

Brady's photographers took them into the battlefields of the Civil War and did the wet plate proces.

[Jay DeFehr]

Very impressive! I know you'll make good use of it. Enjoy!

[MMELVIS]

Alex thank you for sharing your first plate from this camera. The results from your first shot look very good.