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Hey everyone, I am back after many years away.

I wanted to give you all an update on my mammoth wet plate collodion Canada project AMBROTOS KANATA. Back in around 2017 I started to ask questions...

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Another view of the HF3535.

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Here is my HF3535 (35x35 inch) with 1780 Nikkor lens. The plan is to use this gear for a major cross Canada wet plate project.215491...

Hi.... Thank you for your interest in the HF3535 project. Today I am working an OT security guard dayshift here in Canada, something I hate but need to do to let a coworker have a short vacation. To...

Ok Thanks Paul....am in Mae Sot right now photographing and trying to do some film work (scary new to me). Thanks as always for your support. Am off to the dump in 1 hour 15 minutes after breakfast....

Bob thanks for your kind words. Not much to be in "Awe" of, am just telling stories with with camera. We all love photography, we all love to tell stories. Thanks thou for the kind words, they help...

Seems to work now. You can also follow some of my current documentary work in Thailand if your interested. I plan to use a 8x10 Deardorff to make pictures of families living and working a garbage...

Sorry Paul...lets try again..

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Thought I would update you all. My 35x35 camera is currently being built. I will receive on my return from Thailand to Canada in about April-May 2018. Here are some photos of the current build state....

Thought I would update you all. My 35x35 camera is currently being built. I will receive on my return from Thailand to Canada in about April-May 2018. Here are some photos of the current build state....

The 1780mm arrived today from San Francisco after much difficult with Fed Ex. Here she is, a real beauty. Thanks again everyone.

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Yes...that is always something of interest STAWASTAWA. I know of several exhibitons where they gave kids in impoverished areas of the world a camera and then exhibited the rather amazing results....

Thanks very much for the long, detailed and informative post GOAMULES. I have sent emails to most of the big wet plate boys asking for help, workshops etc., including Luther Gerlach. His 3 graces...

Kids in the dump are so wonderful Paul. They are filled with joy, curiousity and intelligence. They love playing with the camera so I let them go at it unless they get a bit too crazy. Linhof stuff...

Haha...Dan....maybe so....I was playing with 35mm stereo cameras lately, love those things. Was going to take one with me to the Thai but I have so much going on and so much gear it might be too much...

Thanks so much Paul, I am just a night time security guard here in Canada with a consuming passion to make pictures. I value the opinions of people with expertise like yourself. Astronomer!, now that...

Thanks so much Paul. I should get the lens sometime next week Wednesday to Friday. Will have a good look at it then. I think it should be ok, only minor marks. I was told that one of these lens...

Thanks so much Paul. I should get the lens sometime next week Wednesday to Friday. Will have a good look at it then. I think it should be ok, only minor marks. I was told that one of these lens...

Goamules, yes I have studied Quinn's YouTube vids, and have his books. My hope is to take a mammoth wet plate workshop with him. I did take a previous basic workshop in Victoria Canada a few years...

Thanks so much Stawastawa

Sure...see you at the session Blue

Well you guys really came through for me! I was able to get 2 lens to cover the 35x35 camera I am having built in record time. I knew that the lens were out there, and that I would be able to buy...

Matt ...Thanks so much for telling me about Kurt and his wonderful work. I sent him and email and he was extremely friendly and generous in his reply (might have a new friend there!). Kurt gave me...

Thanks Ridax, another 2nd lens option.

Thanks for all the suggestions MONTY....I think thou people invest too much time in the tech part of things (especially in the forum world) and not enough time creating and trying to find a unique...

Thanks Steven...Just read the last part of your messange. Not all my shots are going to be at 35x35, plan on getting a reducing back, possibly 26x35 or maybe even smaller at lets say 22x32 something...

What a truly beautiful image, thanks so much. NOW THAT IS INSPIRING!!

[QUOTE=goamules;1394680]It looks like you are a serious photographer, and do some intensive work. I commend you on not being dissuaded by anything anyone has said here. I was not trying to stop...

I tried contacting Kurt, Thanks again Matt.

Sounds great Angus!!

Gosh this lens stuff is complicated, I will have to read this over 2 or 3 times..or 5 or 6! Hopefully the one lens I bought will work for me, I am more interested in just telling stories with my...

BOB...thanks for that. I would love to meet them (Gallery 44 folks)! They have rejected previous work of mine on numerous submissions (sex worker, families of the dump). :) I am sure they are good...

Thanks Steven, no offence taken, your advice is appreciated.
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Thanks very much for the links MATT...I will check them out and try to contact Kurt. Thanks also for the suggestion about Wollaston Meniscus Lens...you guys here at Largeformatphotography have been a...

Angus...Will be doing this in Canada, most of you guys are in the States I believe, not sure I will be going down there. Might be hard to explain the darkroom truck filled with semi toxic chemistry...

Thanks Mark...I plan on starting the ambrotype project in about 5 years time. Will be working wet plate in smaller formats 8x10 and a 16x20 Chamonix before that. Will sort of work my way up to the...

Thanks Bob..for your enthusiasm. Far from a done deal, and it is very likely I will fail in the attempt. Still I would rather live with the failure than the regret of not trying. I agree with some...

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I just love the look that 3d like ambrotypes give when you look THROUGH the glass at the creamy image...BEAUTY! The appeal is working in an ancient process creating unique ONE OF A KIND...

Why ill thought out? in what way? I find that many photo folk, especially large format photogs where the crowd is older are sort of negative when it comes to grand projects. They sort of see things...

Wow now that's a lens!