20 x 24 inch
1x 20 sheets

BLACK – AND - WHITE VARIABLE-CONTRAST ENLARGING PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER

Rollei Vintage is a black-and-white, variable-contrast enlarging photographic paper on a baryta paper base. Its contrast can be varied in a large extent from extra soft up to ultra hard by using colour filters at exposure. The paper is designed for amateur, commercial and artistic photography as well as for other applications.

Rollei Vintage features a very rich half-tone scale over all contrast grades, a shining white paper base and saturated blacks. The paper is manufactured using silver chlorobromide emulsion that gives neutral-to-medium warm tone to the silver image.

Rollei Vintage is manufactured on an baryta paper base in:
Glossy > Rollei Vintage 131 
Matt > Rollei Vintage 132

Packaging
Rollei Vintage is available in all common sheet sizes and wide rolls.

Safelighting
Rollei Vintage is an ortochromatically sensitized photographic paper. Therefore, a suitable safelighting differing from that for conventional photographic papers should be used with a minimum distance of 120 cm. Dark-red safelight filters for orthochromatic materials, e.g. Kodak GBX-2, Ilford 906, Agfa R1, Osram Duka 50, etc. in connection with a 15 Watt lamp, discharge lamp Sodium Vapor etc. are fully suitable. Because of its high speed, Rollei Vintage should be exposed to this safelighting only for a time prerequisite to handling.

Exposure
Rollei Vintage can be exposed in all types of enlargers and printers equipped with tungsten or tungsten halogen lamps. Particularly suitable are devices with a special colour mixing head for multi-contrast papers. Other erlargers can also be used, but separate correction filters should be inserted during exposure.

Contrast control
The contrast can be continuously varied from extra soft (contrast grade 0) to ultra hard (contrast grade 5). Rollei Vintage being orthochromatically sensitized, its contrast is controlled using yellow and magenta filters during exposure. If only the blue sensitized part of t he emulsion is exposed (under magenta filters), the contrast will increase; if the green sensitized part of the emulsion is exposed (under yellow filters), the contrast will reduce.

The following methods and devices are recommended for the contrast control:

• standard sets of filters for variable-contrast papers (e.g. Agfa Variables  Filters, Ilford Multigrade Filters, etc.)
• magenta and yellow filters in colour mixing heads
• special erlarging heads for variable-contrast papers
• colour printing filters (yellow and magenta)
• colour printers with a programme for variable-contrast papers
• black-and-white printers with an inserted magenta filter for hard and ultra hard contrast grades

Filtrations with colour printing filters or colour mixing heads:

Processing
Rollei Vintage  can be processed both manually in trays and automatically in roller developing machines approved for photographic papers on baryta paper base. Suitable are common neutral-working or contrast-working developers as well as special developers for variable-contrast papers. The resulting image tone is influenced by developers used.

For common work over all contrast grades and a neutral image tone, Rollei Vintage Classic, Rollei Vintage Creative, Rollei Print Warmtone developers are recommended. From developers of foreign manufacturers, developers such as Kodak Polymax or Dektol, Tetenal Variospeed, Ilford Multigrade, etc. are recommended. For fixing, a common acid fixer (e.g. Rollei RXA) or Rollei RXN FIX NEUTRAL rapid fixer should be used.

Storage
Rollei Vintage should be stored in an intact original packaging in a dry, cold place (temperatures of up to 5 – 21 °C and relative humidities ranging 40 – 60 %), out of reach of harmful vapours, gases and ionizing radiation.