Analog film photography and cameras

clearing out a cupboard at home, found a load of old paper and chemicals, most of it around 30 years old. some of my earliest memories are hanging out with my dad printing photos in the bathroom and showing me the exposure tests :)

anyway, is there any point me going through it and listing the unopened chemistry - might anyone be interested in experimenting with it or should I just chuck it? it has probably spent the first 10 years in the freezer, then the last 20 years in an outside cupboard so subject to external weather temps but fairly protected.

Hoefla, yeah its probably still useful in some way. Depends how its been stored, as long as it hasn't been propped up against a radiator or had sunlight on the packets you'll still get something from it.
Most of my papers are salvaged from house clearances, between 10 and 30years out of date.
What I've found is the older it gets (but still well stored) is the paper becomes slightly less sensitive to light, but more noticable it is MUCH less forgiving, the ideal 'window' of development & exposure reduces drastically. I.E. normal paper 60secs and you can go +/-15sec's and still get something usable, OLD knackered paper, 75secs +/- 3secs if your lucky!

Makes good pinhole /experimental paper though. And old chemicals, so long as its not been opened, or opened but the air gap reduced they will be fine.