Collodion - Wet Plate Images

[peter schrager]

I also have a bottle of Leah #3 that is now 2+ years old and still works well.
Another very long-lived recipe I would add to the list is UVP-X from Brian Cuyler. I have found that recipe incredibly stable and still perfectly usable after 2.5 years (and still going).

And where can these recipes be found

[paulbarden]

And where can these recipes be found

Lea Formula #3

40.0mL Collodion 4%w/v
22.8mL Diethyl Ether
37.2mL Ethanol 95%
1.08g Cadmium Iodide
0.41g Cadmium Bromide

Makes 100mL, so scale up as needed. It takes several months to ripen, but it will last for a year or two without going bad. I make a large amount and store in a dark cool space.

UVP-X is proprietary, so I rather doubt the recipe has been published. You can buy it from UV Photographics.

[Tin Can]

http://uvphotographics.com/

Looks good to me, never heard of it

I am now going to check LFPF Wet Plate thread for a list of suppliers

[jmpetzval]

Thank you very much, UVP-X was a novelty for me, I never used this formula and I don’t even know its exact composition.

If you know anything, I'd be happy for him.



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[carbo73]

I've been preparing to make collodion plates for almost a year, and a couple of months ago I started making plates. First in 4x5 (with a Speed Graphic), then in 5x7/13x18 with a couple of cameras (a Gundlach Korona View and a German reisekamera made by Konrad Seitz in Nürnberg. I hope to jump up to 18x24 with a Soviet FK made in Leningrad I have. I've been using only Old Workhorse premixed collodion by Franalog in Germany. By now I've even manufactured myself a dark box out of a plastic container, which barely has room for 4x5 only plates.

Here are some of my plates:

First wet plate collodion by SBA73, en Flickr

Soviet triple clone by SBA73, en Flickr

Keep still by SBA73, en Flickr

To my father by SBA73, en Flickr

[peter schrager]

carbo73 these are very nice!!

[SergeyT]

Indeed! Some of them make time go backwards...

[carbo73]

carbo73 these are very nice!!

many thanks! more plates soon

[Bill Rolph]

The first two plates I have made in nearly a year. My technique has suffered, but I'm still rather pleased with the images.

4x5 collodion on black aluminium, 9" f/2.8 Navitar projection lens.

Still Life #2 by Bill, on Flickr

Still Life #3 by Bill, on Flickr

[Tin Can]

Like!

The first two plates I have made in nearly a year. My technique has suffered, but I'm still rather pleased with the images.

4x5 collodion on black aluminium, 9" f/2.8 Navitar projection lens.

Still Life #2 by Bill, on Flickr

Still Life #3 by Bill, on Flickr