Ok so I didn't exactly do Zebra Dry Plate Tintypes the best showing last time out. And in the interest of supporting new and innovative additions to the analogue photography market, I'm going to give these plates a second chance. And I'm going to try harder. And I'm going to keep going until I actually get a decent image out of them. So... let us begin.
Spoiler alert - I get a good one, eventually. And I actually really like it, it's awesome. But it did take me two packs of dry plates to get there, and they're not cheap.
Could I do it again? Umm... maybe.
The thing with these Zebra dry plate tintype things is that the instructions are crazy complicated. They suggest compensating for UV light, shorter exposures in the summer months, longer in the fall and winter. They do offer specific compensation times, how many stops to allow for during these winter months, and also compensations for cloudy vs sunny days.
So I followed those, and they really didn't seem all that accurate. Perhaps it's because you just can't write a list of definitive compensations for the UV light on any given day... because it keeps changing.
The Zebra instructions all give compensations for indoor light. But I tried those too and, as far as I could tell, they were wrong too.
So, whilst I really really like the results I got here, I can't quite see any way to get to those results except by trial and error... and that's a pretty big problem.
Maybe I was over thinking this whole thing. That's definitely possible. I do have a tendency. And in fact, when I stopped compensating for this and that and the other, that was when I got the best results.
Aaaaaanyway. Let me know what you think in the comments below.
As always, big thanks to the most awesome camera maker in the whole world, Samuele at Stenopeika - [ Ссылка ]
And big thanks to Nejc (pronounced like 'Nate') at Zebra. He didn't send me the plates for free, I'm thanking him for all he does in furthering the analogue cause and coming up with new products and keeping us all going. Keep it up! - [ Ссылка ]
I strongly recommend you head over to Nejc's site and try out some of his plates, they're good fun to use and can give you some amazing results!
That's all for now. Laters!
