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Re: [OM] There's Old and then there is OLD!

Subject: Re: [OM] There's Old and then there is OLD!
From: Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:39:00 +1100



> Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Last weekend I got a nice care package from my dad.  An entire cooler 
> full
> of expired B&W paper. The oldest boxes I found had expiration dates in 
> 1951,
> but I think there is one in there from the forties. Not sure how usable 
> some
> of it is, but it has been stored in an old decommissioned fridge for the
> entire time in a basement darkroom. (no radon).
> 
> Last time I used the paper was in the early 1980's and I recall it being 
> a
> bit slow but it worked.
> 

Might be just the stuff to print those Edward Weston & Ansel Adams "knock-offs".

...Wayne

Wayne Harridge

http://lrh.structuregraphs.com
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