Special Lense for wet plate ?

Hello All

I'd love to begin wet plate collodion but i have a question. DO i need a special lense ? I mean are all the lease on the market ok for wet plate ? Or do i need old lense or special lense ?


thanks

Any lens will work.
Faster lenses will be easier to work with since they will give you shorter exposure times.

You do not need old lenses. Modern ones work fine. f/5.6 or faster is preferable. Since exposure times are really slow, you can save money by buying a barrel lens and use the lens cap as the shutter.

A lens is a lens. If using a lens that has a shutter you need to use the T or B setting.


Kent in SD

Ok thanks.. I was thinking that may be the coating could disturb the shot as the wet plate are sensitive to UV.

Photographic objectives' coatings don't usually block UV. Do you think they're like eyeglasses?

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Originally Posted by Manuparis

Ok thanks.. I was thinking that may be the coating could disturb the shot as the wet plate are sensitive to UV.

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I have used many lenses, both period and modern, and I have yet to find one that has a coating that interferes with the making of a collodion plate.