Dry Plates?

jandc said:

The plates are panchromatic.

I just got a quote from Slavich. They are willing to make sizes other than 4x5 and 5x7, 9x12, 13x18 etc are all possible. In small quantities they quoted 4x5 25 to a box at 180 Euro's ($235) plus shipping from Russia. 5x7 is over 300 Euros ($390). Smaller size boxes are possible but this gives the price per plate.

This is my cost for these. In quantity the price goes down a bit. So the next question, is anyone willing to pay these kind of prices for plates?

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David A. Goldfarb said:

Here is Slavich's USA distributor for holography supplies.

http://www.geola.com/holomaterials_usa_eshop.htm

and here's another distributor--

http://www.laserreflections.com/film.html

Would the 4x5" panchromatic plates be the same as 102mm x 127mm PFG-03C Plates for $220? They also come in blue-green sensitive, which may be just an ordinary orthochromatic emulsion.

Still costly, but if the materials are the same, maybe it's better just to order them from someplace that is already selling them in quantity, or alternately, maybe this is another market that J&C might consider expanding into--holography supplies.

I know plates were used in Russia for serious photography until surprisingly recently (like the 1950s or maybe even later), but it's hard to believe that they could survive making plates for pictorial photography in the post-Soviet era.

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