Hi PE
By some coincidence, I had posted today in another forum a question asking if any coating machines were available for home-coating emulsions on film. Having nothing to do the entire afternoon and finding less film in the shelves made me ask just that. I thought that since I had a lot of antique (I would include everything non digital in that category!

) of cameras, losing film meant that they would be degraded to decorative or non-imaging (eg, as paperweights, doorstops, etc) purposes.
I shoot mainly digital now, but I always like to use these old cameras. Developing and printing (using a method that may be tabu in this forum

-wet BW photopaper is hard to come by here now) from REAL film negatives remains to be a sort of renewing, reenergising ritual to me.
This question may have already been asked 10 million times here, but how different is coating film compared to coating paper? The coating blade seems to have been designed for paper. Will it also work for film/plastic or glass surfaces? I don't mind using colour-blind emulsions with ISO speeds (should I say Scheiner or Weston instead?) of 5-10 in old plate or rollfilm cameras. 35 mm strips would be a pipe dream -as if this whole concept isn't a pipe dream to start with- since that would require perforation...
Another question: does the coating blade require other equipment like chillers or heated water baths in use?
zK