Vintage Glass Plate Negatives

[Chris7521]

Great to see everybody's pictures! I've collected some myself.

[Chris7521]

A few more






And one Autochrome

[Robert Brazile]

Ah...nice. Did you pick that Autochrome up at Photographica a few weeks ago, then? I looked at it long and hard... :-)

Robert

[Cameron Cornell]

Chris, those are fantastic! Thank you for sharing them.

Here is a 5x7 plate that I just bought from a fellow in England:



I'm bit. I'm going to keep looking for these.

Cameron Cornell
Washington State
www.analogportraiture.com

[Chris7521]

Ah...nice. Did you pick that Autochrome up at Photographica a few weeks ago, then? I looked at it long and hard... :-)

Robert

Yes I did, for some reason I couldn't leave without it though I tried a couple of times. The chances of seeing another like that are slim so I bit the bullet
The only thing I bought there and the only Autochrome I own.

[RedGreenBlue]

The Autochrome is exceptional.

[Robert Brazile]

Yes I did, for some reason I couldn't leave without it though I tried a couple of times. The chances of seeing another like that are slim so I bit the bullet
The only thing I bought there and the only Autochrome I own.

I don't blame you at all. I picked it up and put it down several times, it's lovely. But I hit that table at the end of the day rather than the beginning, and had already spent enough: including coming home with a couple boxes of antique dry plates (and one box of Jason's modern ones, to compare to my own), and one...autochrome, found at another table. The glass was broken along one side, but it was still recoverable, and much less expensive as a result. FWIW.


FF-082, Springtime Autochrome by Robert Brazile, on Flickr

Robert

[G Benaim]

Have any of you printed these negs on paper? Curious what they'd look like as actual prints, probably have enough density for silver chloride and alt processes no ?

[Chris7521]

I don't blame you at all. I picked it up and put it down several times, it's lovely. But I hit that table at the end of the day rather than the beginning, and had already spent enough: including coming home with a couple boxes of antique dry plates (and one box of Jason's modern ones, to compare to my own), and one...autochrome, found at another table. The glass was broken along one side, but it was still recoverable, and much less expensive as a result. FWIW.


FF-082, Springtime Autochrome by Robert Brazile, on Flickr

Robert

Good find, thanks for sharing.

[Robert Brazile]

Have any of you printed these negs on paper? Curious what they'd look like as actual prints, probably have enough density for silver chloride and alt processes no ?

Silver chloride for sure. Alt processes, sometimes (in my limited experience).

Robert