This photographer is great. Clearly explained everything...great artist

"Can you shoot outdoors" The photographer is trying so hard to not say "Its a pain in the ass but yeah you can" lol

I LOVE the look of them. Now to try imitate this with photoshop, cause even though i would pay $60 for one, the trip to San Francisco from Sweden will probably cost a little more.

Thank you so much for this video! Taking modern photographs with historically accurate processes is so fascinating!

The details on these photos are amazing...

I love and collect tintypes. This type of studio should be more readily available!

(I just ran off to find this video after watching Adam get his done) This is so fascinating to me! I have only worked with film in a high school photography course, but I loved it. There is just something so real about using film that I bet is even more so with tintypes. I hope to get the opportunity to try this someday! Unfortunately, being a broke 17 year old I doubt that'll be any time soon, though.Anyway, great video! Tested never fails to amaze me.

This was the most thorough explanation I ever heard in a video, thanks!

I'd love to get one done sometime...been looking at some of the methods used in early photography and it amazes me! I can't imagine the sheer awe people felt back then when it was introduced.

Love these videos from you guys

I just love it - What a process and beautiful prints

This is absolutely wonderful!

Wow, I'd go to SF just to do this. Amazing stuff!

Great video! As a photographer myself, I have always wanted to experiment with this archaic process. It looks like a lot of fun.

I used to have a darkroom and loved developing my own pics. This appeals to me greatly as it's very hands on and produces a beautiful end result.

Wow it's beautiful. I'm so glad your doing this photography.

Is crazy how he can answer all the crazy scientific aspect of the process he's doing. Thays real mastery of the craft.

I would love a tin type of myself and a few of my Marines in our dress blue uniform and civilian beards

Just so people know, the term he uses after 6:18 is wet plate collodion. It took me a while figure out the spelling, so I wanted to make it easier for others.

Love the show!

so awesome. and comprehensive!!

So cool. Great video!

Wow I've never heard of tintype till now but I am very amazed at that quality :O That man really knows his stuff.

Victorian Photography Studio in Gettysburg Pa does Tintype

that's really cool how you see the photo change to black and white

Victorian Photography Studio in gettysburg PA allows anyone to come in to the shop and get a tintype or ambrotype done as well.

I just love this type of photography! Will last u a lifetime. All my children photos are fading out now which is sad.

There is also a fully functional tintype studio in nyc. Its called the Penumbra foundation and they can shoot 4x5s up to an 11x14 I believe. Its really cool I would recommend everyone to check it out

Nice that you are using the Scully & Osterman sheet film conversion! 😄

very striking final image/product would love to get this done

cool...love this 'type' of photography

wow 60$. I was thinking like 500$ and thought that would be a deal. In fact, i'd like it way more if it was 500$, at least you would do just one photo, no matter if you didnt like it

this is an awesome way to make photos. one of a kind. sometimes you have to roll back time to make an awesome photo. Great Job guy.

Fascinating.

its crazy that all the old photographers back in the late 19th century were all chemists as well. this is really just all chemistry

Enjoyed the video I am plying with film photography and my Internet research brought me to your video and I enjoyed it

man norman those rock and are so so detailed. if i get out to cali i will have to do that but unfortunately i'm stuck in DFW texas

here are all the tintypes, including adam's: imgur[dot com]/a/uARJc

If you look closely at 5:02, you can see he's using a 210 mm 1:5,6 lens. Pretty much a standard portraitlens for a 4x5 camera.

this is awesome

thanks!!

Very nice indeed

Can you tell the cameraman to stop crash-zooming and hold the camera more steady. That MTV style moving cam is so distracting. Just show us the things of a quiet subject calmly and don't try to make it more interesting by overly moving

I like the fact that he has a ring light connected to his SINAR F series camera.

amazing looking, really cool process. digital is almost too easy

This is awesome. I want to get a tintype portrait... too bad I live all the way on the other coast.

Nicely done

"like a fine grained black and white negative" - wet plate is photolytic silver, the grain size is much smaller than filamentary silver in black and white film emulsions.

Totally worth it, Michael Shindler's a legend :D

want to do this

I know there use to be a paper ferrotype of photography used at county or city Fairs. This process used a sensitized paper film that was shot in a camera. As the camera operator advanced the film forward, the exposed film was dropped into a developing tank below the camera. In about 5 minutes the exposed paper was removed from the tank, exposed to sunlight, then this same exposed paper was put into another developing tank for about 3 minutes, then to a stop bath, then to a hypo tank. The paper has undergone a reversal process from negative to positive and dried on a heated platen type of dryer. I am curious exactly how the chemistry worked on the sensitized paper film, and the chemistry to develop the negative, then exposure, then bleach, then positive development, then stop bath, then hypo bath and finally drying process. This process was done before the development of Polaroid processes in the 1950's and as later after Polaroid film process was developed.

ok so where is adams tintype thought you were going to put it up in the video along with yours. and this is super cool... wish there were more places like this around

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!! :-)

There's a studio in Brussels that does aluminium collodion prints of up to 40cm x 50cm. It costs 1500 euros, but you can get that done.

He looked a little miffed that you didn't want to pay for your tintype. You guys owe him 120 bucks. Did you ever go back and get them?

Wow thats impressive..

hrmm, looks like his studio closed down. guess you could always find the guy personally.

Maybe only in San Fran. We have a couple places here in Upstate New York. :)

Although this was uploaded in 2012, he was then as now not anywhere near the only studio that does this. There are around a thousand serious wet plate photographers today. It is becoming my premier service in my photography business. It is the most rewarding process I have learned. I started in film in the 70s and moved to digital in the 21st century. As time passed I took and interest in wet plate and am now a collodion junkie.

this is so cool! if i'm ever in the area i'm for sure gonna go!

only $60! Well worth it

Instant grizzly prospector looks!

The size of the metal image plate is only limited by the "box" you put the plate into. Do a search on KZfaq for Ian Ruhter. His wet plate images are pretty big. He uses a cube truck as a camera.

Really really cool. I'm not that much into photography, but nevertheless i enjoyed watching this ;)

It's a shame they can't be drum scanned. I have an 8000dpi drum scanner and my b&w 4x5 negatives are the equivalent of 1gigapixel. Obviously, resolution isn't everything but it does help to resolve the fantastically smooth tonal transitions you get from 4x5. The tonal transitions and sharpness of wet plate is even better than negative in some ways.

Will looks like the Tax Master in his portrait.

wow .75 iso , no wonder it needs extended exposure, curious if the size of the camera effects the time of the shot. ie larger aperture.

Ultra modern studio with the latest lighting system and using old fashioned tin plate. It's like using a steam engine as a power source for a mobile phone. Or using ultra modern tools to make a 17th century style cabinet, i prefer to keep everything authentic

Your assuming that the chemical emulsion is not diluted with alcohol, water or ether (depending on the process). In order for the chemicals to be evenly spread across the tin it has to be suspended in a liquid which dramatically increases the space between the photosensitive molecules reducing the resolution".

8:23 Davy Jones in the mirror lol

Wow this is way cool... now I ned to construct a dark room... haha

amazing Video. is anyone here that would tell me what cheap lens should I buy for my wet plate camera ?

Did he forget/skip the Varnish stage? Or did he not need that? Amazing video though!! : D

I would totally pay $60 for one.

Haha, exactly!

How about Anton Orlov in San Diego?

this vid made me to find tested! in an effort to make not a collodion photography print but a true daguerreotype one now I'm almost there but, not yet the mirror ghost image illudes me ''one way it is negative another angle it is positive'' but it is a mirror as well!

Also I spy a new Will Meme face @ 10:46

Not the it ones, go to Gettysburg! That's how they do it there and it is $20.

Anyone have an idea of what size lens he's using?

It should be called Hipsterbooth. BTW I would LOVE to have my portrait taken there, I would dress like it was 1899

I love how it makes it look like everyone is old and that they've worked in a coal mine all their life. lol

What I'd love to know is how he got enough light out of one flash to expose that plate? If collodion is somewhere less than iso 1, then an exposure in direct sunlight is going to take a good few seconds, so how do you squeeze let's say 5 seconds of f22 daylight into one huge blast from a strobe without giving your subjects arc eyes? Also, his lens appears to be an f5.6 portrait lens, so, even wide open, that's not all that fast either. I am wondering if maybe there's a lot more UV light coming out of a xenon tube than sunlight or something, as I've heard that collodion reacts strongly with light so far off the blue-end of the spectrum that it can't be seen by the eye, but I am just guessing here.

I thought chemicals were outlawed in California.

are you guys going tho E3 ??

@ about 12,39 does he say "potassium cyanide" and mean "potassium ferricyanide"? Excellent informative and easy to watch video...

I’m so interested in tin types but i don’t have a giant budget to make a proper wooden camera, if any one has a great way to do it for cheap please let me know

Calm down and turn off the music! Apart from that, great stuff!

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Wow...the guy in the glasses has a TON of makeup on. Damn!

please camara man control your camera...

could a person do this with tin foil?

it should be called tintography

Dooe

$60 for a 1/4 plate? Geeeez, come to my studio and I'll make you one for$25, $20 for ea additional, but there is a $40 set up fee.