Kickstarter: Galaxy Wants to Bring Back Large Format Dry Plate Photography

Wet plate photography has been making a serious come back lately, but this Kickstarter from Galaxy wants to bring back dry plate, large format photography in a relatively accessible way.

If you’re unfamiliar, the process involves, well, pretty much making big, beautiful, black-and-white negatives out of pieces of laboratory-grade glass. The dry plates have an ISO equivalent of 200, but they’re not sensitive to red-light, so metering is a bit different. That means they can also be developed with the help of a safe light.

The plates come in packs of 10 and start at the standard 4x5-inch size, then move up to 5x7-inch, 8x10-inch, 11x14-inch, and massive 16x20-inch sizes. Of course, the plates aren’t cheap, but alteative process, large format photography rarely is. The 4x5-inch plates check in at around $8 each ($9 once the early bird pledges are over) and the 16x20-inch plates cost $150 each. That’s some serious pressure.

The plates will use the new Galaxy glass plate holders, which will be part of a Kickstarter that’s coming soon.

Click here to check out the Kickstarter.