Topic: Agfa Signum II photographic paper

[irv_b]

Hi all
My wife is off to an auction and amongst other things, there is some Agfa Signum II photographic paper in a lot. I guess it is going to be out of date so I would most likely use it in the darkroom for practising.  Has anyone used it? Is it any good ?Is it not worth bothering about?

[Francois]

I never heard of it so it must be pretty old...

I did a bit of research and it is an RA4 color paper... not compatible with either safelights or Dektol...

Some even say it used to yield some pretty incredible colors and has a nice heavy base.
Might be the right time to either print color or shoot it in a nice large format camera.

[irv_b]

Thanks for the info Francois!
 I'll tell her to only go for it, if it's goes cheap enough!

[Photo_Utopia]

I used Signum in the late 1990's from memory it was a little more contrasty, sort of aimed at the commercial guys.
At one time Agfa did three types of paper with slightly different contrast, Optima was normal, Signum hard and Portrait soft.
They were all RA4 roll paper, the portrait was lovely.
They did something similar with their films too...