Just did an order of black glass for ambrotypes from an American seller. It will be expensive, with shipping the cost is $737.50 USD (over $1000 CAD). I got 100 4x5 sheets, and 50 8x10 sheets of black glass. The good thing about glass is that you can keep cleaning and re coating them until you get the perfect ambrotype (or until you break the glass!).
The bad part of this is the glass will not be shipped for 3 months. So I will probably not get anything until sometime in mid October, which will be at the far end of the shooting season here in Canada, just before another long cold winter.
Am hoping these glass plates will be used in my first gallery ambrotype show. Wonder how to frame them?
The bad part of this is the glass will not be shipped for 3 months. So I will probably not get anything until sometime in mid October, which will be at the far end of the shooting season here in Canada, just before another long cold winter.
Am hoping these glass plates will be used in my first gallery ambrotype show. Wonder how to frame them?
