Give me a couple days. Working through a backlog right now.
Give me a couple days. Working through a backlog right now.
Newly made large format dry plates available! Look:
https://www.pictoriographica.com
I have wondering about packaging (My plates are still in limbo in Denmark) and how to store the exposed NOS plates I have here in Spain!
I assume that Ilford must have lots of experience of how to pack plates - well at least by 1956 which the date of the lantern slides I am making here. Perhaps Ilford's way of doing it was standard industry practice?
Ilford sold only even numbers and the plates were paired and wrapped in back paper. Emulsion sides were placed inwards and had two edge white carboard folded edges to project the glass to some extent. The emulsion sides don't stick together - even after 65 years. I think this is probably a good way of storing these plates when they have dried too. The only disadvantage I have found is that during loading in a tent/bag the corner pieces always seem to finish up lying on the open book holder.
Otherwise, I find loading plates a good deal easier than "bendy" sheet film and the emulsion side is known as these are always the "inside" side.
I thought I posted this, but cannot find it. Here are the 1895 Kodak 5X7 Glass plates top layer packing method. In a 10 pack, there was the high-quality black paper on top of each emulsion. The top 2 were face to face with the pictured plasticized paper clips, no paper. So the first one on top was facing down, the only one thus so.
I mention the Kodak interleaving paper as high quality as there was no dust inside the sealed packet. The 1897 1/4 plate Stanley Dry Plates did not have the clip and it felt very dusty in there and later after processing, I did see a lot of dust in develeoped emusion and worse. Meaning small and large pinholes.
Kodak 5X7 Plate clips by moe.randy, on Flickr
In LFPF files are my 2013 Dry Plate experiments with an opened packet. Here is the thread.
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...=1#post1026142
Those look familiar..same scheme as in my box of Kodak plates.
I'm not a fan for my plates, as the imperfections from hand-coating can scratch the other plate's emulsion. I put them all facing forward with paper between each. It makes more sense to do it that way based on my experience from the optics world.
Newly made large format dry plates available! Look:
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Many thanks to Jason for making these fine plates available to us.
Enjoy!
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Very well done demonstration and video!
That's the way you do it.
Nice plates Jason.
Jason, I got your replacement 1/4 Dry Plates today. The new size fits perfectly in both my all metal Ikon Trona 212 1/4 Plate USA Spec German Camera SSD holder and my Wood DDS USA 1/4 Plate holder. I use 1/4 Plate to denote 3-1/4 X 4-1/4 inch as is common practice.
The fit in both is exactly the same. Both use sliding steel hooks to hold down the plate with spring steel pressure.
Great job!
Thank you!
Anyone process these in Pyrocat HD? Just got my 5x7 plates and the only developer I have on hand is Pyrocat. Seems like the hardening effect might be good.
Roger
The plates are inherently high contrast, so you want to use a dilution like 1:1:100... but I think the development times are going to be really long .. so long I worry about what it does to the emulsion.
Do you have print developer? Dektol will work. I developed a plate in PolymaxT earlier this week just because it was in the developing tray. The plate came out fine and the PolymaxT actually helped control the contrast. So I would try a print developer and just develop by inspection under safelight.
-Jason
Newly made large format dry plates available! Look:
https://www.pictoriographica.com
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