[rollei_list] Re: Off topic, classic photo paper

  • From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 18:29:29 -0400

If those materials were still available today, I would shoot
much more film. I loved Verichrome, I loved Velox, I loved my contact
printing box. To this day contact prints are my preference, and use
the digital files to make contact negatives.


Eric Goldstein

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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My first experience at developing was done with the contents of a Kodak
> darkroom in a box.  My dad had taken a course in photography somewhere and
> brought this home. He never used it but I did. It had a small packet of
> Velox, a couple of Tri-Chem-Paks, some small trays, a ruby lamp, a small
> printing frame, and some other stuff.  The film was Verichrome (not pan)
> probably 127.  I can see the images coming up on the film to this day even
> though this was more than sixty years ago.  I printed the pictures on the
> Velox using a plain light bulb as the light source.  I don't actually
> remember what the pictures were, probably taken in front of the house. I
> don't have a clear memory but think we got an FR kit after that, anyway
> something more sophisticated with a tank.
>
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