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.
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
Tin Can
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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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
carbo73 these are very nice!!
Indeed! Some of them make time go backwards...
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
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