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
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.
Last edited by Ari; 18-Aug-2020 at 13:17.
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.
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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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