Re: dry plates

Herold Faulkner (faulkner@redshift.com)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 18:36:44 -0800

As it appears that some did not get my posting about availability of glass
plates from Kodak I am re-posting it here. Note especially the phone number
for EK's "glass plate management team." They should be able to answer your
questions.

-----Original Message-----
From: Herold Faulkner <faulkner@redshift.com>
To: ALYSON BELCHER <alysonb@sfsu.edu>; alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
<alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 1998 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: dry plates

>Alyson,
>
>Just looked through the Kodak stockhouse catalog at work. The pages
>concerning glass plats are dated 1994, but I suspect that this is the most
>current. As of that date glass plates were available in TMX, Tech Pan and
>other emulsions such as spectrographic, holographic, and short
>wave/Radiation.
>
>You can contact Kodak's "Glass Plate Management Team" at (800) 823-4474
and
>they can provide order quantities, pricing, turn around information...
>
>Hope this helps, or is at least illuminating.
>
>
>Hal
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ALYSON BELCHER <alysonb@sfsu.edu>
>To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
><alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
>Date: Sunday, February 08, 1998 10:29 PM
>Subject: dry plates
>
>
>>Does anyone know if 4x5 dry plates can still be found? A friend of mine
>>has a wonderful old camera that hold several plates at once--he is
>>currently experimenting with coating glass plates with liquid emulsion,
>>but he would like to know if anyone manufactures plates for these cameras.
>>I kind of doubt it, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
>>Thanks
>>Alyson
>>
>