Steve Shapiro (sgshiya@redshift.com)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:23:51 -0800
Subject: Re: glass plate+platino+homemade cams.
>>I want to learn about glass-plate photography. William Henry Jacksons
>>negatives
>>impressed me very much .I want to start to build a homemade camera and
>>than print
>>the negatives on platino - palladium paper.I bought a Schneider -
>>Kreuznach 12082194
>>Symmar 1 /5.6 / 180 *** 1:12 / 315. What can be the largest glass
>>format
>>for this objective and how can I calculate the all dimentional data of
>>this camera box.?
>
>
>I once took a sheet of Palladio's paper and put it in a pinhole camera
>(don't know the effective aperture, but it was teeny that's for sure). So
>after an hour in the bright sun I developed i and got nothing. So I tried
>another piece for fours in the sun and got...more nothing. So I put a sheet
>in the next morning and picked it up 24 hours later. There were faint
>images from a bright metal sign across the street and hardly anything else.
>
That's better than Jackson's first try with the Glass Plates.
After his treecking three months into the wilderness and making those wet
plates, the prints, washing the plates and onethe treck back got it all
stolen by the Indians.
His famous Cross on Mt. Holyoke was a re-shoot.
Steve
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