For one thing, you'd be dealing with heavy glass plates. The camera, too, would be heavy, as well as bulky. And chances are you'd be working with wet-collodion plates, which would mean that ...

Using one of the Zeiss compacts. In the 20s and into the 30s, I would carry a 6-1/2 x 8-1/2 glass plate camera -- that was a little heavy. And I had a 4 x 5 camera, then of course we went to film ...

Every time he sets up on the road, he has to deal with heavy glass plates. The camera is bulky too. “Unlike modern photography where you just click the shutter, the process of producing an image ...