J. Lane Glass Dry Plates

carbo73 said:
It would be wise that all our wives don't even know each other, or they might form an alliance against us 😱😱


On another issue, how did you make the print, pure dark room or with digital world involved? I ask because that's an enlargement of the original format.
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I 'scan' the negative with my Hasselblad 907x on a copystand, then I make my requisite adjustments and then inkjet print with my Epson 3880. So a mix of early 20th century and early 21st century, if you will.

I gave up my full darkroom about 20 years ago, so right now I'm strictly developing the glass plate negatives in my present darkroom arrangement. I do, however, have a large UV exposure box and have been having absolutely no success with my cyanotypes - not sure if the bulbs are wrong or there's something in my process that I'm not doing correctly. Weird as I used to be a fairly good platinum-palladium printer, so cyanotypes should actually be easier.

Curiously my wife doesn't care too much about my photography in general - normally she just gives them a cursory glance when I show them to her (and at the moment we don't have any of my photos on the walls here at home, so not sure if that's means anything!). I'm sure when I'm dead and gone they'll all end up in the trash, cameras included.
 
carbo73 said:
I love how the lens start to distort heavily on the margins of the image. Cool.
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I sent the camera to Frank Marshman to see if there was an issue with the lens which caused that distortion and if it could be remedied, but he checked it out and said that's just the way it is. Interestingly my Tiranty Verographe is basically the same type of camera (6x13 stereo/panoramic) and it doesn't do that. Different lens of course.
 
Well, I have the same problem with cyanotypes vs kallitypes. The "easier" cyanotypes are harder to get than kallitypes, for me. With a UV led lamp (although it has been almost a years since I did last one).

And about the future of your equipment, tell them at least that it is valuable and could be sold on the web, even as bulk. Somebody might use it in the future... 😉

Vince Lupo said:
I 'scan' the negative with my Hasselblad 907x on a copystand, then I make my requisite adjustments and then inkjet print with my Epson 3880. So a mix of early 20th century and early 21st century, if you will.

I gave up my full darkroom about 20 years ago, so right now I'm strictly developing the glass plate negatives in my present darkroom arrangement. I do, however, have a large UV exposure box and have been having absolutely no success with my cyanotypes - not sure if the bulbs are wrong or there's something in my process that I'm not doing correctly. Weird as I used to be a fairly good platinum-palladium printer, so cyanotypes should actually be easier.

Curiously my wife doesn't care too much about my photography in general - normally she just gives them a cursory glance when I show them to her (and at the moment we don't have any of my photos on the walls here at home, so not sure if that's means anything!). I'm sure when I'm dead and gone they'll all end up in the trash, cameras included.
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and to return the thread to the J.Lane Dry Plates....

a couple of 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 25 ASA plates, taken with a c.1928 Graflex Series B camera; Kodak Anastigmat f4.5 / 162mm lens; plates developed in Rodinal.

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I love how the orthochromatic nature of the plates is shown here: those "dark" old post boxes are bright yellow!
 
carbo73 said:
It would be wise that all our wives don't even know each other, or they might form an alliance against us 😱😱
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so stereotyped, such a Foolish juvenile remark even if made in Jest...
No wonder there are so few Women on RFF

Yes, we Ladies are so lucky to be Graced by Important Men doing their Great Work.

Thanks 'Carbo73' for the wake up call
Time for another woman to no longer invest in Rff
 
Helen, your outrage at this remark is totally warranted, but please don't abandon RFF! We need your presence here, as a talented photographer and as a woman.
Many of us here have spouses/partners, male or female, who completely understand and support our passion. I'm fortunate enough to be one of them, and I've always found these remarks to be as old, tired, and sexist as some 1950's sitcom. Please, guys, think before you post!
 
Retro-Grouch said:
Helen, your outrage at this remark is totally warranted, but please don't abandon RFF! We need your presence here, as a talented photographer and as a woman.
Many of us here have spouses/partners, male or female, who completely understand and support our passion. I'm fortunate enough to be one of them, and I've always found these remarks to be as old, tired, and sexist as some 1950's sitcom. Please, guys, think before you post!
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Silly, I have no outrage...
just tired, bored with stupidities ... 🙄
It's really a Mans World here on RFF and maybe it should be
Cheers & Best to You ~ Retro-Grouch

Just carry on...it's a Beautiful thread of Photos and Exploration
 
excuse me but I was just describing reality. My wife would love that I get rid of all my old photographic equipment. She has no interest at all in it, and finds I use too much space at home with it. But that was not related to the sexual identity of the partner. Could happen the same the other way arround or in same sex couples. So let's be calm all of us, and show pictures.

helenhill said:
Silly, I have no outrage...
just tired, bored with stupidities ... 🙄
It's really a Mans World here on RFF and maybe it should be
Cheers & Best to You ~ Retro-Grouch

Just carry on... it's a Beautiful thread of Photos and Exploration
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Hari said:
I got to order some 5x7 plates for
the Graflex, the new 'speed plates'.
At 25 speed it's almost 'available light'!
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I also have, since this summer, a magnificient (and a bit battered) 5x7 Graflex Auto. Do you have 5x7 slotted holders? Mine came only with a film "bag-mag", so I can use film but no plates... by now!
 
Another print version of the Bobs Lake image.

I think I like this better than the previous print, which was much larger (17" wide) and printed on Epson Legacy Platine. This version is on Epson Legacy Etching, 8.5"x11" paper size. I think the Etching works better with the 'vintage' nature of the glass plate imagery, plus the matte finish works well in addition to the subtle texture in the paper and the warmth. It looks a bit more like the image is 'in' the paper rather than 'on top' of the paper -- not that I necessarily thought that was the case with the Platine paper.

I think this is the way I'm going to go with all my future glass plate shots. I have to say that I really like these Epson 'Legacy' papers.


Bobs Lake Print2 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
 
First shot from the Gaumont Spido 9x12, J. Lane 'speed' plate @ ISO 12.


Gaumont Spido First Plate by Vince Lupo, on Flickr

I discovered that I have a light leak in the lens itself, likely around the shutter blade on the left side. What I'll need to remember to do is to either keep the lens cap on or the tamboured dark slide deployed until I'm ready to shoot.
 
Third plate from the Gaumont Spido.


Gaumont Third Plate Rough by Vince Lupo, on Flickr

This one is definitely not perfect -- there was some fogging of some kind on the upper part of the plate (plus I was shooting towards the sun), so it's making the best of a marginal plate. But if I wanted an image that had 'the look', I think this is one of them.
 
Carbo73: I got a couple of the wider and slotted
film holders for the Graflex 5x7 SLR. I've filed the
'ridge' on several ordinary wood 5x7, so they fit flat.
The extra length of the Graflex holder is not a problem
with the altered 5x7 holders as the velvet on the camera
extends wide. Just be careful to balance left/right sides.
On my Graflex the shutter is non-functional. Good luck!
5x7 makes nice contact prints.
 
Nokton48 said:
Yeah. These look great. You are really dialing it in. Every aspect perfect.
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Many thanks! I managed to track down and fix a light leak in the Spido body this morning, so hopefully I'll have a better success rate in the next go-round.

How I wish I could find another multi-plate back for the Gaumont - as it is right now I'm limited to 12 plates, though I suppose I could change the plates out in the field but I'd rather not do that. I did, however, score a spare Spido body without the lens/lens board nor the back. But an additional back would be nice to have.
 
farlymac said:
You're getting pretty darn good at this stuff, Vince.
PF
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Many thanks Phil - I first started in ‘historic techniques’ back in grad school in the ‘90s (platinum-palladium was my favourite, as well as gum bichromate and others) so maybe all those late nights working on them are now paying off. I thank (blame?) the late Pete Christman from the Savannah College of Art and Design for leading me down this road to ruin!
 
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