Topic: Found Paper - I may have goofed!?

[LeonY]

A few weeks back, i received boxes and boxes of photo paper from a bloke i randomly met. He was clearing out his darkroom as he got bored of it. It was all sealed brand new boxes of all sorts of different BW papers, some open but mostly all new and fresh(well new form the 70s...)

One of the packages was a roll of paper, it was in 2 thick plastic black bags, one inside the other. I though i would try it out to see what it was last night. So I went into the darkroom, turned on my safe-light (Agfa-Gavaert sodium red light) and proceeded to unpack the roll. The paper was white on one side(felt like RC paper), and black on the other(glossy black). The paper was very heavy in weight, i cut a few slices off and proceeded to develop them, I got barely any image on them, until i realized...this may be colour paper. SO i took a piece of it into the light and scratched off the glossy black side, and it was multi layered with red, blue and green.....

So my question...have i destroyed the whole roll by exposing it to the red light for a few minutes? I don't print colour paper, never have...so i wasn't expecting it. On one hand i don't really care(it was free and i would have never used it), on the other im crying inside for having maybe ruining this huge roll..

If anyone wants the roll, im happy to pack and ship to you guys(im in Australia) if you pay for shipping via paypal. I will have to throw it out otherwise.i feel really stupid.

[Francois]

I don't think it's entirely ruined. First few turns probably are but apart from that, (and the edges), it should be pretty much OK. It will yield some pretty strange greenish looking edges though

[LeonY]

Francois do u want the roll??

[Francois]

Sorry but I'll have to pass on this one. I don't do RA4 processing so it won't be much use to me.
But I'm sure there are some others here who will want to play with it.

[jojonas~]

a good find with all that darkroom stuff, leon. congrats

on the RA4 paper, I wouldn't use it myself, but I have a friend that I could check with if noone else is interested?
a shame to throw stuff like that way, though I understand your situation.

anyway, he's been toying around with such paper in a kamra-e-faoree camera he built. it would go to his whole darkroom club
here's a shot of him using the paper and camera:


edit: btw, how big is the roll?

[LeonY]

Thats a creeepy photo jojonas! FYI the roll is 10 inches wide and about 2 inches thick from the core base. I think at least 10 meters in there! Im in Australia, let me kwo where you are and ill tell you how much shipping will cost

[jojonas~]

that's a lot of paper! :O hehe, I'm in Sweden.

[LeonY]

Dang, Sweden! I looked up shipping, by sea mail its $70AUD! that will tke like 4 weeks to arrive.

[jojonas~]

Dang, Sweden! I looked up shipping, by sea mail its $70AUD! that will tke like 4 weeks to arrive.

ok, got it! I'll see if they are interested haha wow..