Voigtlander windowsill
A new decade, a new silver bath!
Today I got to make a few test plates with my new silver bath - the one I just retired was choked with alcohol and iodides/bromides. Its been treated to remove impurities, but it will need silver nitrate added to restore it to fully usable, so I have to wait for more AgNO3 to arrive.
So, this is a 5x7 negative made with the Voigtlander Petzval lens, no Waterhouse stops used. Exposure was 7 minutes at f3.2 using Quinn's negative collodion recipe, which I must admit works very well, and doesn't go funky nearly as fast as Coffer's #7 for negs.
Voigtlander windowsill
A new decade, a new silver bath!
Today I got to make a few test plates with my new silver bath - the one I just retired was choked with alcohol and iodides/bromides. Its been treated to remove impurities, but it will need silver nitrate added to restore it to fully usable, so I have to wait for more AgNO3 to arrive.
So, this is a 5x7 negative made with the Voigtlander Petzval lens, no Waterhouse stops used. Exposure was 7 minutes at f3.2 using Quinn's negative collodion recipe, which I must admit works very well, and doesn't go funky nearly as fast as Coffer's #7 for negs.