[rollei_list] Re: Off topic, classic photo paper

  • From: Robert Meier <robertmeier@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 23:50:49 -0500 (CDT)

Fascinating history and information, Richard.   Thanks very much.

Robert

On Jul 17, 2012, at 11:30 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Williams" <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
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> 
>> Velox-
>> 
>> Does anyone out there remember using this paper?
>> 
>> How long was it a standard at Kodak?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> DAW
> 
>    The original Velox was a "gaslight" paper. That meant you could process it 
> by weak white light like gaslight.  I don't know how long Kodak made the 
> original Velox but it was replaced by a fairly fast contact paper by the 
> 1930s, maybe earlier.  Velox was Kodak's standard paper for photofinishing 
> machines and for amateur contact printing. Velox had a distinctive blue-black 
> image color. Up to perhaps the late 1940s Velox came as both single weight 
> and double weight paper with several surfaces. By the mid-1950s it came only 
> as single weight glossy.  It also came in a wide variety of contrast grades, 
> six I think, in order to match any sort of negative a photofinisher might 
> need to print.
>    The speed of Velox was fast for a contact paper.  One poster asked about 
> the difference between contact and enlarging papers, mostly its speed. 
> Enlarging paper has speeds of anywhere from 5 to about 100 times that of 
> contact paper.  Kodak also made a version called Velox Rapid, which was meant 
> exclusively for automatic projection photofinishing printing machines of the 
> sort used for making "jumbo prints".
>   My 1951 5th edition of the Paper book from the Kodak Reference Handbook 
> lists the speeds of contact papers as:
> Velox.....32
> Azo and Illustrator's Azo...16
> Athena...5
> 
> Illustrator's Azo is a different paper from Azo. Azo is neutral toned and 
> Illustrator's Azo is warm toned.  Athena has a brown image color that looks 
> almost toned.
>    Also listed in this book is Velite, a contact paper similar to the 
> original Velox in that it could be handled in dim white light.
>    For comparison, Kodak gives the speed of Kodabromide as 1000 and Opal, 
> their slowest enlarging paper as 160.
>    For the term Velox in newspaper printing see
> http://www.answers.com/topic/velox-print
>    This probably did not use Velox paper, I suspect the word was used in the 
> sense of being rapid.
> 
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> Richard Knoppow
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