Collodion look with Development of 35 mm film

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Is there a developer or technique for 35mm films to get the similar tones at wet plate collodion ?

If the result could be done without printing and if the scan would be put to the gallery.

Umut

 

[removed account4]

this is possible , i do it often ..using coffee / caffenol developer

 

[ic-racer]

A wet plate glass negative would not be much different than contemporary film when printed on paper. You may be thinking of the trendy process of coating an opaque black plate. In this case the silver reflects the light and produces the lighter areas forming a positive (but reversed) image. This has a very distinctive look and it can be achieved with traditional film. However, scanning the negative would destroy the effect. You have to look at a thin negative against a black background to view the positive image.

 

[Schlapp]

Paper negs

 

[removed account4]

IC
he wants expose regular film, scan it invert it and have his end-image look like a wet plate image.
it can easily be done with any b/w file, but its kind of off topic here on apug being a hybrid workflow.
i do it without even manipulating the file because caffenol is heavy on the mid tones and less contrasty than
a "normal" developer.

paper negs, yup

 

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

Thank you all,

ic-racer,

is there anyway to preserve that look ? May be , do rephotographing the reflection , record it ?

 

[removed account4]

Thank you all,

ic-racer,

is there anyway to preserve that look ? May be , do rephotographing the reflection , record it ?

umut

if you put it infront of something black you might see it
or if you tilt it in the light and rephotograph it might work ...
shy not just try and see ?

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

I would think you would have to start with some orthochromatic film since collodion wet plate is blue sensitive.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Use a blue filter. Collodion is blue/UV sensitive only.

Use the finest grain film you can.

 

[removed account4]

in addition to thomas' blue filter suggestions there's also other information here
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)
about getting pan films to look ortho-ish