I got my 4x5 ones too. Great finish and quality. About the same price as color slide film. I have no complaints, and really appreciate Nodda Duma’s efforts for making this available to us.
I got my 4x5 ones too. Great finish and quality. About the same price as color slide film. I have no complaints, and really appreciate Nodda Duma’s efforts for making this available to us.
I didn't mean to be critical of your pricing, Jason. I simply meant that right now, under current circumstances, I cannot afford this product. I have no doubt you are selling it for as low a price as you can. I am certain it is far superior to standard black "stained glass" plates, but I simply can't afford $8.00 a piece for 8X10 glass. I wish things were different, but....
Randy,
I cannot cite suppliers at this point, because it seems they come and go, and availability changes all the time. I know that about a year and a half ago, I found one supplier, but the product was only available for a short time. I don't know of any current suppliers of black stained glass, but I am certain they're out there. I can also tell you their product was more expensive than what Jason offers, if I remember correctly. Black glass isn't cheap, no matter who the supplier. I'm sticking to making ambrotypes on clear glass and blacking the reverse by various methods.
Edit: A quick search of the web for "Black stained glass" reveals a number of sources.
No worries, Paul...didn’t take it as such. I was sharing in frustration that I can’t push the prices down much. My gial has always been to make plate shooting affordable. I could get the price down on this stuff..maybe as demand grows and I can buy in larger quantities.
I did a couple things to try and help: I tuned the prices down a little more and also cut the size of the packs in half, so while the per-piece cost doesn’t change, it’s not as large an investment to try them out. Check out the revised listing and maybe that will help (or at least lower the investment bar).
The black glass from those sources are rippled and textured..definitely not conducive to what I want to do (coat with emulsion). I have several large pieces that I bought for testing and, as Randy states, the stuff is crap for what wet / dry platers want to do.
Newly made large format dry plates available! Look:
https://www.pictoriographica.com
Thanks for the link, so 5 plates in 4x5 are $15, which sounds reasonable. It is hard to find good glass, however none of us wetplaters "have been searching for it for years" as the seller states. Sorry, but you don't have a secret source that no one else can find. It's out there, I and many others buy it when we find some for a good price. You just have to hunt around and then you have your supplier. Dark ruby red, purple, and green work well too.
Here is a plate I shot on some in 2011.
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