Zebra Dry Plates Standard Glass

Dry PlateISO 2

Characteristics

  • Grain: fine
  • Contrast: medium
  • Latitude: narrow
  • Formats available: 4x5, 5x7, 8x10, 9x12 cm, Custom

Hand-coated orthochromatic silver-gelatin emulsion on clear glass — the negative-producing flagship of the Zebra Dry Plates catalog. ISO 2. Made in Slovenia by the studio that started as a 2017 BFA project at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana and shipped its first commercial plates in December 2020.

Sizes include modern view-camera 4×5 / 5×7 / 8×10 plus the European 9×12 cm (the metric "4×5cm" size), and Zebra is one of the few commercial dry-plate makers willing to coat custom sizes — see https://zebradryplates.com/product/custom-sized-zebra-dry-plates/ for user-specified dimensions.

For practitioners who want to mix their own emulsion rather than buy pre-coated plates, Zebra also sells a Silver Gelatine Emulsion Starter Kit — the chemistry-side companion to this product. The DIY emulsion recipe on darkroomFYI was created against this kit's ingredients.

References

  1. WEB Denise Ross. The Light Farm. https://thelightfarm.com/ ↩
  2. BOOK James, Christopher. The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes 3rd ed. Cengage Learning, 2015. ISBN 978-1-285-08931-7. ↩