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This process requires a collodion with equal atoms of iodides and bromides.

Sutton's Collodion Rapid Dry Plate Process 1862

Quinn Jacobson February 19, 2022

I’m getting ready to run my first dry plate negatives based on Thomas Sutton’s Rapid Dry Plate process. I have four plate holders for my Chamonix 10x10 camera. Three of them have Whole Plate inserts - I need to modify the other insert to fit Whole Plate and then I can take four plates out with me at a time.

I’m also going to try a changing bag and black foil bags to take an additional four plates - a total of 8 plates at a time. If I can use the changing bag and the food foil bags are in fact light-tight, it will give me plenty to work with while out in the field on a day trip.

I sensitized and prepared four plates today. I’ll expose them and develop them tomorrow. According to Sutton, I’ll have the speed of a Wet Collodion plate, with the convenience of a dry plate. I’ll make a variety of exposures mostly all stopped down to f/11 or f/16. We’ll see how it goes!

Three holders ready to receive the dry plates.

← Sutton's Dry Plates, Ute Pottery, and My Print StampThe Rapid Dry Collodion Process by Thomas Sutton, 1862 →

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