Thank you. It isn’t my gate, I wish I lived there and it was! I think I have some promising images on the negatives I have processed so far, but I haven’t had time to make contact sheets yet.
I too miss Agfa papers. They were my favorite. Congratulations on getting such fine prints from old paper. You have more patience than most for testing such things so you really deserve the success!
Thanks for this article. I have got a few boxes of Agfa portriga and record rapid too. My next darkroom session will be an Agfa Session.
Usually I use old papers only for lithprinting or sunprints or chemigrams ...
After reading your article I want to make prints and I'll test my papers with normal developer. Perhaps I'll be frustrated but darkroom work is full of surprise...
Du printing: Is that sticking a sheet into an old beer can, making a pinhole and then tying the can to a tree, to expose a whole day, and somehow not developing it, but still get an image?😄
I love this. I want to go back to film and paper and developing in the darkroom. There is literally no such place where I live. It is depressing. Only digital. Can be artful but it is not the same. What happens in a darkroom is MAGIC. Thx for this post.
I tried to make prints from a box of Agfa MultiContrast MCP 310 MC, using a developer opened in February 2017 (!). They came out ok, but a bit foggy. Developed for 2½ minutes.
So I mixed new chemicals from brand new bottles, and tried again. Now, they all came out rather foggy, as if they had been exposed to light.
I tried handling a paper in yellow-green light, in red light, in darkness, from the top, the middle and the bottom of the package. After talking to the people in the store that sells the stuff, and now reading your post, I realize the paper is past its prime.
So I have to fork out for new... And I cannot recall paper being so expensive 40 years ago! Even taking inflation into account...😅
The cost of silver has become very expensive, mainly because it is used in munitions. All of the crazy leaders are blowing our precious silver into atoms.
Super post! What a great looking house. Your gate is lovely. I look forward to seeing what else you came away with!
Thank you. It isn’t my gate, I wish I lived there and it was! I think I have some promising images on the negatives I have processed so far, but I haven’t had time to make contact sheets yet.
But when you made the photograph, it became your gate!! It is great.
Thank you.
I too miss Agfa papers. They were my favorite. Congratulations on getting such fine prints from old paper. You have more patience than most for testing such things so you really deserve the success!
Thanks for this article. I have got a few boxes of Agfa portriga and record rapid too. My next darkroom session will be an Agfa Session.
Usually I use old papers only for lithprinting or sunprints or chemigrams ...
After reading your article I want to make prints and I'll test my papers with normal developer. Perhaps I'll be frustrated but darkroom work is full of surprise...
Du printing: Is that sticking a sheet into an old beer can, making a pinhole and then tying the can to a tree, to expose a whole day, and somehow not developing it, but still get an image?😄
Wow what a place. Great article Sandy, very informative as usual.
Thanks Tony, I am thinking of running a group workshop there in the autumn if there is enough interest.
I love this. I want to go back to film and paper and developing in the darkroom. There is literally no such place where I live. It is depressing. Only digital. Can be artful but it is not the same. What happens in a darkroom is MAGIC. Thx for this post.
Thank you Mary, where are you based?
I tried to make prints from a box of Agfa MultiContrast MCP 310 MC, using a developer opened in February 2017 (!). They came out ok, but a bit foggy. Developed for 2½ minutes.
So I mixed new chemicals from brand new bottles, and tried again. Now, they all came out rather foggy, as if they had been exposed to light.
I tried handling a paper in yellow-green light, in red light, in darkness, from the top, the middle and the bottom of the package. After talking to the people in the store that sells the stuff, and now reading your post, I realize the paper is past its prime.
So I have to fork out for new... And I cannot recall paper being so expensive 40 years ago! Even taking inflation into account...😅
The cost of silver has become very expensive, mainly because it is used in munitions. All of the crazy leaders are blowing our precious silver into atoms.