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

  • From: Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:45:40 -0500

Oh yes, used both.  Never enough chemical in a tri-chem pack...

P.J. Nebergall

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:47:55 -0700 (PDT) John Jensen
<jwjensen356@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> What I remember about Kodak Velox paper from the early
> 50s is a simple paper for contact printing.  For the
> negative processing I used Kodak Tri-Chem packs (from
> a local pharmacy).  Does anyone remember those?
> 
> John
> 
> --- Allen Zak <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Way back there was a contact printing paper called
> > Velox.  I used it in 
> > the mid-1950s through, I think, mid-60s, mostly for
> > proofing or contact 
> > printing from large negatives.  What you describe
> > seems to be something 
> > else entirely.  Kodak recycles some of its brand
> > names into different 
> > product lines, it would seem.
> > 
> > Allen Zak
> > 
> > On Aug 20, 2006, at 12:27 AM, Dan Kalish wrote:
> > 
> > > I found, in my late mother's photographic
> > paraphernalia, an old 
> > > package of
> > > Kodak "Velox Transparent Water Color Stamps." 
> > These are designed to be
> > > used, like watercolor paint, on Velox paper
> > "(Velvet surface 
> > > preferred)".
> > > What is Velox?
> > >
> > > They can also be used to color "lantern slides." 
> > What are lantern 
> > > slides?
> > >
> > > I consider colorizing classic motion pictures to
> > be blasphemy, and this
> > > sounds like the same sort of venture.  However,
> > since I do watercolor
> > > painting, this might warrant some experimentation.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > >
> > >
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