expired ilfomar ,ilfospeed ,ilfobrom

[nosibe]

Hello ,
I have an opportunity to buy an old lot of old ilford paper approximatly 30 years old : ilfomar ,ilfospeed and ilfobrom.
would it be worth buying it for using ?
kind regards

 

[Mike Crawford]

I'm working on a project just now with some of these papers with a similar vintage. The Ilfobrom (G3 single weight) is still workable but at least a grade softer and very little base fog. Likewise for G3 Ilfospeed though has kept better contrast. The Ilfomar was surprisingly good with a slight warm tone, bit of base fog, though not unpleasant, and also was very interesting in lith dev. (See attached) Not a great scan or a good print, a bit too dark, though looks a bit like warm tone paper processed in pyro. However, as always depends on how it's been stored. I presume you could buy it for a cheap price as wouldn't want to spend a lot given the risk of old papers. Even heavily base fogged papers can yield interesting results given a bit of bleaching.

 

[Peter Schrager]

Ilfimar was supposedly one of the great papers of all time...Paul caponigro printed on that and so did Fred picker

 

[revdoc]

I have some Ilfobrom that's over 20 years old. It prints just fine.

It came with a collection of various papers, mostly Afga, but also some Ilford Multigrade and one very ancient pack of paper by Turaphot (made in West Germany). All 16 by 20, all fogged to the point of being unusable. Lucky for me I paid nothing for them.

I wouldn't pay a cent for old paper, myself. Well, maybe if it's very cheap.