Topic: Agfa and Perutz BW Papers (My Latest Ebay Trawl)

[LeonY]

My latest haul is around 400-500 sheets of various sizes, All packs have their original seals!!! Im so excited im going to print some tonight and upload them for your observation. Has anyone ever printed on these:

[Andrea.]

I have used the old agfa paper - great to lit on!

[sapata]

Awesome find!

I have a box of Perutz 35mm film bought at the photographica couple of years ago but haven't used yet...

[LeonY]

Tested out some of these and turns out...
The perutz boxes are actualy some sort of film....no idea..
The agfa blue sensetive is also a film bht its like paper...

The rest were normal bw papers that worked perfectly ill post results tomorrow when they have dried

[LeonY]

Update...
Both the Perutz and Blue sensetive agfa filns are definitely film. I exposed them in the darkroom under my enlarger then developed in rodinal 1+50 @20°c
They seem to make transparencies! But positive transparancies. Really good look and sharp. Any idea how tgese were actualy intended to be used??

[Francois]

The Blue sensitive stuff could have been used in document reproduction. It also could have been used in astrophotography as I learned from a quick google search.

I wonder about one thing though: does it have an emulsion on both sides?
If so, it's most probably x-ray film.

But in any case, if you use it in camera to shoot portraits, you should get about the same tonalities as tintypes.

[LeonY]

I have no camera yo fit such huge negs.might have to build a pinhole...
Fyi the film emultion is on 1 side only...
I might sell this stuff back to ebay as i have no use for it. Will keep 1 box of each though. Anyone interested??

[Chris A Fraser]

what size is it?

[LeonY]

Some scans finaly:
1.Manual from the Agfa Blue Sensitive film
2.Manual from the Perutz  film
3.Scan of the Agfa blue sensitive film, best one i could get out after an hour in the darkroom..My scanner is not backbit either so i had to use a torch above the film whilst it scans!
4.Scan of the agfa paper, this stuff is awesome, really thick FB bw paper. i needed to expose it for much longer then a fresh pack and developmental time was maybe 30 seconds longer. but it looks and feels great. not to mention the way it smelts

CHRIS...the film is 13x18cm...

i did not have much luck with the perutz film. seems very fogged, maybe it was stored in heat or maybe im just not developing it correctly. im going to try it in ID11 this week as rodinal may have developed it too much..and also in a different type of fixer.that seemed to help the blue sensitive stuff popo out correctly yesterday.

if anyone is interested i have 4 boxes of each, if you pay for shipping via paypal from Australia, they are yours for free! im going t0o keep a box each as i have already opened one of each

[Francois]

Actually, the Perutz film being for document copy, you need a developer with a lot of hydroquinone.
Hydroquinone is a high contrast developer so processing in Dektol or anything similar will probably give the best results.

[Photo_Utopia]

I have some old paper too, thought it would be rubbish but after seeing you results (Portriga was my favourite paper in the late '70's)

[LeonY]

I have some old paper too, thought it would be rubbish but after seeing you results

Try it out u never know. The last shot i upliaded was the paper not the films. The paper actualy turned out fine. I think my scan job just isnt doind it jystice. Or the overexposed photo of my bored friend hehe