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Hi!
I bought a few packs of dry plates and I want to experiment with them. They're very old and for sure I'll have to compensate in order to get something recorded.

My question is, how do I know the emulsion side when loading the plate into the darkslide? I have one plate that came inside one of the darkslide and by looking and feeling, I guess the rough side is where the emulsion is since the other side is just glass with no coating, it feels much more smoother and I believe this is the side that will be facing the lens... am I correct ?

Thanks...

When i used dry plates to record holograms at uni we were told to find the emulsion side by licking the tip of your finger and just in the very corner of the plate seeing which side feels tacky.

Thanks Dave... this is a good tip.
I'm looking forward to do some tests now that I've loaded the darkslides...