What to do with old fogged paper?

RalphLambrecht

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Different idea from the posts so far.

Contact a local school and offer to show youngsters the wonders of silver-based photography by doing photograms with them. Who knows, they might get into the hobby, become APUG members some day, and make sure Kodak and Ilford keep making the stuff for all of us.

Just a thought, but to little is done to get young people interested in what we do and love, and fogged paper may serve a useful purpose this way.
 

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it wasn't any problem, i just had to figure out what keyword to use

and the salt peter can be found at your local pharmacy!
(mine was )

john
 

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I intend to give this POP idea a try. A number of former photographers who turned to digisnapping gave me boxes and boxes of long expired paper. Thanks for the research, John.
juan
 

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I tried the saltpeter treatment on some old Spiratone paper. Exposure for about 20-minutes with my UV box gave a nice looking printed out image. However, about 15-seconds in dilute fixer removed almost all of the image. It seems more experimentation is needed. Maybe my fix was not dilute enough.
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Are you supposed to fix POP images? I thought the idea was to gold tone them for permanence.
 

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Are you supposed to fix POP images? I thought the idea was to gold tone them for permanence.


Fixing for permanence is needed for sure. The usually routine is; Expose, wash until your wash water does not turn milky any more (in POP that is the unexposed silver nitrate combining with the chloride in the tap water: a precipitate of silver chloride), than tone in gold (or Pt or Pd or even Se) and than fix in a relative weak hypo fix (say 10% for 2 minutes), rapid fix is too strong usually..

Best,

Cor
 
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