You can use sodium thiosulfate to fix rather than the incredibly poisonous potassium cyanide.
You might look into taking a class from Quinn Jacobson. He's in Denver and gives a lot of workshops. It's not right there in Salt Lake but it's not too far, either, once you get rid of all that snow.
The wet plate hold from Chamonix is not a back for the camera, it is just a standard size film holder that fits into standard size camera backs. Just like regular film holders.
I also live in salt lake and have been wanting to learn wet plate. If you find someone local willing to teach the process please let me know.
Zak Baker
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I wanted to thank Denise for posting the http://www.thelightfarm.com/ link back in post #10 of this thread. It was only about a week ago I saw a YouTube video on making a dry plate holder from a standard sheet film holder. I didn't even know people were doing dry plates. Reading through the Light Farm site, I get the impression dry plate making may be a bit more involved when doing the coating than wet plates, but way more convenient to use in the field. I've definitely Bookmarked the Light Farm site for when I have more free time to experiment.
Len
You've never done it but you are advising people to learn film first, weplate "much later" and telling them it's difficult, expensive and toxic here? http://www.largeformatphotography.in...l=1#post987701
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I've been following this forum for a bit, so, wet plate can't be done on a normal LF camera that takes film? It needs a special camera?
wet plate can be done on any camera, you just need a plate holder.
Read the entire thread I posted this link early on as a place to buy wet plate holders.
http://www.chamonixviewcamera.com/wetplateholders.html
I think that a link to another option and even to how to modify a regular holder has also been posted.
Zak Baker
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