Excerpt from The Velox Book: The Working of a Simple Paper Told in Simple Terms Velox is made in six different sur faces and divided broadly into two grades of papers, called Regular and Special. As these trade terms have reference to Speed and contrast and not surface, we could as well say slow and fast or hard and soft. In each grade will be found a variety of surfaces. Choose the surface which best suits you and which will harmonize with the subject of your picture. Select your negatives, remembering that the Regular papers print slowly, but develop quickly, and are adapted for negatives lacking contrast, and known as thin or weak negatives. Special papers require shorter exposure and longer development (as compared with the Regular) and are for use with contrasty negatives. Such negatives are also referred to as being strong, thick, dense or hard. Royal Velox differs from the other Velox papers in that it is coated on a stock having a cream tint, just a soft mellow tone that pre vents harshness in the high lights. The stock is somewhat heavier than the usual Velox stock, about half-way between the single and the double weight. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.