J. Lane Glass Dry Plates

9x12 Jason Lane Speed Plates 25 ASA.
Pictures taken with an Ihagee Patent Duplex 720, made in 1925; Meyer Görlitz Doppel-Anastigmat Veraplan f4.5 / 135mm lens; developed in Rodinal. My grandfather had exactly the same camera.

Streets and surroundings in my hometown, Sabadell (Catalonia).


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I've loaded up twenty 9x12 EI 1 J Lane Plates, ready to shoot.

Also twenty 6.5x9 Plaubel Makina and Rada plate holders with the EI 1 emulsion.

Still have twenty 6.5x9 EI 25 Speed Plates to load into additional Makina holders.

This is going to be fun. 🙂
 
In this coronavirus summer of 2020 i managed to get to a Barcelona empty of tourism with a 9x12 Ihagee Patent Duplex 720. This are the Jason Lane 25 ASA dry plates I took there:


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J Lane Dry Plate Maki Brass Petzval 1 by Nokton48, on Flickr

9x12cm J Lane Dry Plate Test exposed EI 1 dev straight Legacy Mic-X 18 minutes at 60F. Plaubel Makiflex 6 inch Brass Projection Petzval about F4. Arista 8x10 RC Matte #2 dev Multigrade. Omega DII with Omegalite Diffusion Head. RADA 9x12cm Normalfaltz Plate Holder with Makiflex Attachment
 
A 9x12 25 ASA Jason Lane plate, shot with a 1925 Ihagee Patent Duplex 720 camera. This is the village of Estanyol, near Girona, in Catalonia.


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A couple of different dry plate visions of the romanesque abbey of Sant Cugat del Vallès, in Catalonia:

-with one of my oldest cameras, a half-plate Lancaster Instantograph, made c. 1890; lens Lancaster Achromat. Jason Lane 2 ASA Dry Plate, developed with HC110.

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And a panoramic view with a French Gaumont Stereo-Spido, made c.1920-1930; Jason Lane Speed Plate 25 ASA, developed in HC110.

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carbo73 said:
fun to use, but I have problems with that batch of plates, I think. They show a kind of mist
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I seem to be having an issue with the sizing - they have to be the right size to fit in the cameras’ septums as well as the Kodak plate hangers for development (I use a tank with a lid and it works great). Not much wiggle room in sizing for the plates to fit both - too small and they just fall out of the septums, too large and they don’t fit the hangers. I realize they are all hand cut, but sometimes there’s enough variation to cause a bit of a headache. I think with my next order I might just send Jason both a septum and a developing hanger to get the sizing completely dialed in.
 
I sent Jason a Plaubel Makina 6x9 plate holder so he could dial in the sizing. The Makina uses a clamping mechanism which presses down from the top of the plate.

I loaded quite a few plates recently and the sizing is now good.
 
in my case the sizing was quite correct, but the problem seemed more to the emulsion. But then specially with the stereo pictures I took, not the panoramic one (the Gaumont Stereospido can take both). The exposure must be indentical in both images, or the effect 3D is not wholy achieved.
 
9x12cm J Lane Dry Plate Makiflex 210 Auto Heliar by Nokton48, on Flickr

The view off my front porch in subzero weather

Plaubel Automatic Makiflex 9x9cm SLR, 9x12cm J Lane Dry Plate developed 18 mins 20c in straight replenished gallon Acufine. Plaubel Makiflex Auto Iris 21cm Heliar. RADA Normalfaltz plate holder in Plaubel Makiflex Adapter. 8x10 Aristo RC #2 Omega DII black 180 Rodagon laser aligned. Iflord Multigrade dev

Depth of field is thin but you can detect the texture of the snow. Shot during covid and feeling isolated
 
6.5x9 Dry Plate Developing Rack Hack from 5x7 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Using Stainless Steel Bars and Nuts/Bolts, I have hacked a Kodak 5x7 SS Hanger to fit two 6.5x9 Jason Lane Dry Plates. Now I need to build five more of these and fill the Kodak 8x10 Rubber Tanks.
I shoot up to 8x10 so these will do the job without question.

And many Thanks! to Vince Lupo for the idea on these, and helping me source the materials necessary for the hack.
I think this will be very satisfactory. 🙂
 
Nokton48 said:
6.5x9 Dry Plate Developing Rack Hack from 5x7 by Nokton48, on Flickr

Using Stainless Steel Bars and Nuts/Bolts, I have hacked a Kodak 5x7 SS Hanger to fit two 6.5x9 Jason Lane Dry Plates. Now I need to build five more of these and fill the Kodak 8x10 Rubber Tanks.
I shoot up to 8x10 so these will do the job without question.

And many Thanks! to Vince Lupo for the idea on these, and helping me source the materials necessary for the hack.
I think this will be very satisfactory. 🙂
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I’ll send you my bill soon 🙂
 
Bülter&Stammer 9x12 camera, made c.1908-1915; Lacour-Berthiot Eurygraphe Anastigmat Nº5 Serie II f6 120mm lens; Jason Lane Speed Plate 25 ASA, developed in HC110.

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Looks super-duper.

Question for you: Are you exposing the ‘speed’ plates at ISO 25? And if so, what dilution are you using for HC-110? Are your plates really contrasty? I haven’t used HC-110 in probably 30 years, so I’m not really up on it.

I’ve been shooting those plates at ISO 12 and then developing in D76, 1:2 dilution for 12 minutes at 73 degrees. Contrast seems to be the challenge for me - getting enough (or any!) shadow detail and not blowing the highlights. I still don’t feel like I have my ‘system’ hammered down yet.

Jason just sent me 70 4.5x6cm speed plates for both the Ermanox and the Goerz Vest Pocket Tenax. I’m loading up 30 Goerz holders and taking them on the road soon.
 
Vince Lupo said:
Looks super-duper.

Question for you: Are you exposing the ‘speed’ plates at ISO 25? And if so, what dilution are you using for HC-110? Are your plates really contrasty? I haven’t used HC-110 in probably 30 years, so I’m not really up on it.

I’ve been shooting those plates at ISO 12 and then developing in D76, 1:2 dilution for 12 minutes at 73 degrees. Contrast seems to be the challenge for me - getting enough (or any!) shadow detail and not blowing the highlights. I still don’t feel like I have my ‘system’ hammered down yet.

Jason just sent me 70 4.5x6cm speed plates for both the Ermanox and the Goerz Vest Pocket Tenax. I’m loading up 30 Goerz holders and taking them on the road soon.
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Sorry for the delay.

Yes, I expose them @25 ISO, although the times in the cameras, considering its age, are approximate at best. I use dilution B with HC110, although I also use Rodinal, depending on my own stocks.

But most of the time I feel like yourself, still waiting more contrast. Although my main fear is to have thin plates, a.k.a underexposed. In fact, it seems that, if dubious, it's way safer to overexpose them.

As you are doing, I've just loaded 10 9x12 25 ASA plates in my early XX Century Hüttig Trilby falling plate camera to take it on holidays. I hope it works 🙂
 
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