This was my very first result, an ambrotype, taken on a 1/4 plate Lancaster Instantograph dry plate camera of 1900. One of the dry plate holders was modified to take wet plates. The collodion was home made according to the instructions on Philip Aprosio's marvelous site.

This 1/2 plate ambrotype was the first one made with commercial collodion (BDH).

A 1/2 plate tintype made with the whole plate camera and the Dallmeyer 'Patent Portrait' lens. An exposure of four seconds was given with the No.2 stop (about f6.4)

BDH collodion was used, salted with Bob Szabo's double collodion, The silver bath was prepared according to the instructions given in Carey Lea's manual of 1867.

Sergeant Richard O'Sullivan of Co.F, 55th.Virginia Infantry Regiment

A half plate ferrotype

The Lazyjacks at the American Museum, Bath. May 2004.

The collodion was made with nitrocellulose to Estabrooke's formula (page 111, edition of 1872)

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