I recently won a local eBay auction for a pile of photo papers and other gear - enlarger easels, stack of photography books, enlarger timer, big Paterson dev tank, so on. But now I have the before mentioned stack (about 20 packs, anywhere from 10-100 sheets in each) I'm not particularly sure what to do with it.
There's actually a wide variety of stuff here, most of it with notes on the front - "no filter needed", "not too bad, not too good", "totally fucked - not fogged though", and so on.
Obviously someone knew their game better than me, but I'm not too sure on the usability of it. It's all still in the internal blackout bags, and some inexperience with a bulk roll from Ilford has told me that's reasonably light tight as long as it's folded over. Some is from Agfa, some from Ilford (Ilford Australia Proprietary Limited - obviously somewhat old), and one or two colour packs from somewhere.
On top of this, there's a giant heavy sealed box I'd assume is the person's paper safe - I dare not open without a safelight, it's under a bed right now.
Until I can actually get a darkroom set up and a safelight to test for myself, what would people guess on the usability of this stuff? I'm keeping the small packs in my film fridge but I'm not sure how it's been stored before now any idea on how long paper keeps for, in general?
There's actually a wide variety of stuff here, most of it with notes on the front - "no filter needed", "not too bad, not too good", "totally fucked - not fogged though", and so on.
Obviously someone knew their game better than me, but I'm not too sure on the usability of it. It's all still in the internal blackout bags, and some inexperience with a bulk roll from Ilford has told me that's reasonably light tight as long as it's folded over. Some is from Agfa, some from Ilford (Ilford Australia Proprietary Limited - obviously somewhat old), and one or two colour packs from somewhere.
On top of this, there's a giant heavy sealed box I'd assume is the person's paper safe - I dare not open without a safelight, it's under a bed right now.
Until I can actually get a darkroom set up and a safelight to test for myself, what would people guess on the usability of this stuff? I'm keeping the small packs in my film fridge but I'm not sure how it's been stored before now any idea on how long paper keeps for, in general?
