Pictoriographica LLC

Jason Lane, Owner

J. Lane Dry Plates resurrect the look of early 1880s un-sensitized silver gelatin emulsions, which were mostly coated by hand using similar methods as mine.  This was a critical time in the development and mass marketing of photographic negatives, and many of the world’s first amateur photographers took their first photographs on dry plates very similar to ours.  With the advent of sensitized emulsions (orthochromatic, panchromatic) and other advances in emulsion engineering, these original silver gelatin emulsions were lost to time and no longer produced by anyone until today.