J. Lane Dry Plates available for purchase

dwross · Jan 15, 2018

Hi All,
I've been waiting for someone to start a cottage industry with dry plates, and it's as cool as I thought it could be. J. Lane Dry Plates are a direct-connection time machine back to the earliest days of silver gelatin photography (c.1880). There were hundreds of small plate-making businesses started to jump on the incredible technological advantage of dry plate over wet plate.
Here's more information: http://www.thelightfarm.com (top of the home page), including a Facebook link. If you're on Facebook, be sure to like and share the page. Congrats! Mr. Lane.

Nodda Duma · Jan 16, 2018

Thanks, Denise. I really appreciate the support and encouragement that you and other folks in the community have provided. It's been a heck of a lot of fun so far, and I particularly enjoy tackling all the new issues that arise in stepping up my plate making volume to get them out to people, as odd as that may sound.

dwross · Apr 10, 2018

Time and weather finally aligned. I've tested a J. Lane dry plate and it's gorgeous! Drying now. Printing tomorrow.
Thanks!!!, Jason and again, congratulations.

Nodda Duma · Apr 10, 2018

Awesome!

If you get to Portland, Blue Moon Camera is selling them and the staff loves them too.

dwross · Apr 12, 2018

I'm sure the staff loves them!
Here are two prints from the same plate : gaslight paper and silver gelatin POP

NedL · Apr 13, 2018

Congratulations to Jason, they are now available at Freestyle and Freestyle is advertising them to their customers ( I got an email announcement about them today )

Herzeleid · Apr 13, 2018

Great news, congratulations indeed. From time to time I order some materials from freestyle. International shipping of glass plate would not be safe But I wish I could have tried those plates.

jimjm · Apr 13, 2018

Jason - contrats on the support and exposure from Freestyle! I got the email about your plates as well, so I guess they're blasting it out to most customers.

It'll be interesting to see how much your order requests increase. Hope you're ready to ramp up production....

bdial · Apr 13, 2018

I caught that email too, we have a regular George Eastman among us.

Nodda Duma · Apr 14, 2018

Thanks guys.. yes I have been (happily) inundated with questions and interest since they blasted that email out. I am cranking out plates and can keep up well enough. Of course, the PHSNE show is this weekend *and* I’ll be on travel for my day job for a bit. So it is a little hectic but I like the pace and have “margin” for increased production. If demand ticks up then I may even get the opportunity to hire a local high school kid to help out.

Herzeleid..pm me about international shipping cost. I can probably get you a box or two shipped for a decent price.

Blue Moon Camera in Portland, OR also stocks the plates so be sure to throw them some love as well.

-Jason

removedacct1 · Apr 15, 2018

Nodda Duma said:
Thanks guys.. yes I have been (happily) inundated with questions and interest since they blasted that email out. I am cranking out plates and can keep up well enough. Of course, the PHSNE show is this weekend *and* I’ll be on travel for my day job for a bit. So it is a little hectic but I like the pace and have “margin” for increased production. If demand ticks up then I may even get the opportunity to hire a local high school kid to help out.

Herzeleid..pm me about international shipping cost. I can probably get you a box or two shipped for a decent price.

Blue Moon Camera in Portland, OR also stocks the plates so be sure to throw them some love as well.

-Jason

Bought a box at Blue Moon this afternoon!

Nodda Duma · Apr 15, 2018

paulbarden said:
Bought a box at Blue Moon this afternoon!

Awesome!

Photo Engineer · Apr 15, 2018

Keep going guy! How would you like and ISO 400+ emulsion formula?

PE

Nodda Duma · Apr 15, 2018

Photo Engineer said:
Keep going guy! How would you like and ISO 400+ emulsion formula?

PE

Absolutely!

Ron, I may very well be up in Rochester on travel for a few days within the next two weeks. Customer wants me to oversee alignment of optical assemblies for my space station camera lens design. The trip is still being finalized (a last minute request from them), but it’ll either be this coming week or next. Would love to say hi while I’m up there. I’m going to ping Mark Osterman as well once travel plans are finalized (tho I expect he’ll be busy). My days will be busy but I’m hoping to be free one evening.

Photo Engineer · Apr 15, 2018

Jason, I'm not going anywhere soon, literally. I'll be here and we can discuss high speed formulas. Mark and Nick were here on Thursday but have a lot going on at GEM. Give me a call or give them a call. Maybe we can all get together.

Best wishes.

Ron

tim48v · Apr 21, 2018

We now have 4x5 plate holders for our SP-445 tank. (Yes, we're looking into other sizes.)

These are 3D printed to order, details here: Dead Link Removed

tim48v · May 18, 2018

We now have holders available for 9x12 and 1/4 plate: Dead Link Removed

Nodda Duma · May 18, 2018

Awesome Tim

Photo Engineer · May 18, 2018

See Mark Osterman's method of converting any film holder to a plate holder.

PE

J. Lane Dry Plates available for purchase

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