[rollei_list] Re: OT Re: What is Velox? What are lantern slides?

  • From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:24:08 -0400

Don Williams wrote:

As far as a printer is concerned, all it takes is an enlarger as a light source and a sheet of glass to hold the negative and paper flat on the platen.

Don Williams
La Jolla, CA


As far as the box, operating it was half the fun for a kid. As far as the image, it is difficult if not impossible to duplicate the look of the old materials. As far as the process, I think Edward Weston had it right... when he was poor and struggling he shot old pawn shop RR lenses and cameras and contact printed them on improvised frames with a goose neck desk lamp for a light source...

BTW every time Kodak would change a negative or paper formulation he would go out and get good and drunk because years of learning the materials was lost and he had to start from scratch...


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