I remember using some 4 x 5 glass plates in the mid 50s in a camera attached to a telescope. My recollection is that they were Tri-X. The last time I looked (last year), Kodak was still making glass plates on special order but they were for scientific purposes.
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>From: "F. Wentzel"
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Dry Plate History
>Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 14:39:46 +0200 (CEST)
>
>The discussion about endangered films got me thinking
>and as often happens, I don't know the answer!
>
>Does anyone know when the last dry plates for
>pictorial use were made by Kodak*... and what was
>their top speed? What was the most popular speed?
>
>*(or other manufacturers?)
>
>(I am thinking around the 30's with speeds up to ASA
>75 or even as late as the 50's with speeds up to
>possibly ASA 100.)
>
>I missed it by THAT much, eh??
>Darn!
>
>Fritz
>
>
>
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