Glass Plate Photography

These pictures were taken with a Conley Model XV, a folding view camera that's roughly 120 years old. Rather than film, it exposes 4x5 glass plates. With the exception of the final photo, all of these were shot on Zebra dry plates.

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This image is actually a plate I made myself. I made a silver gelatin emulsion and coated a piece of glass in my darkroom:



These photos were shot on Ilford Delta 3200 with my Minolta Autocord I which was built in 1965.




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