>>2640121>>2638781Both wet and dry plate uses raw silver chloride as the photosensitive substance. Silver chloride's light absorption spectrum is mostly in thenultraviolet range. It hasn't been photosensitized with additional dyes increasing its photosensitigity in the visible spectrum. It's "colourblind". That's part of its slowness - there aint much UV knocking around after passing the glass (highly uv-absorbing) lens even at noon in summer (most uv then). So it reacts to blues, renders reds as dead black. Makes melanin deposits and skin imperfections/texture very visible.
To faithfully reproduce a photo made with any technique utilising AgCl - silver chloride - you'd need a camera and lens assemhly(specialistic expensive stuff) capable of registering UV light, with an IR cutoff blue filter since ccds and cmoses are receptive to it. Everything else is a simulated approximation of the wet plate effect.
Pic related, wet plate and digital picture comparing colour rendering etc.
