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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Photography
Publisher: New York : Tennant and Ward
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ur, who issatisfied with anything as long as it is a print or printable, butfor the more advanced worker who knows what he wants toget in advance, and is willing to adapt his methods to meetthe desired results. We will start the process backwards, by making some printsfirst and our negatives later, as the results can be better ob-served in the prints. But first let us prepare our developer as follows: A Metol or Satropol i5 gi- Sodium Sulphite (dry). . 80 Sodium Carbonate (dry). 60 Potassium Bromide i Water 5 oz. B Hydroquinone ^5 S^- Sodium Sulphite (dry). . 80 Sodium Carbonate (dry). 60 Potassium Bromide i Water 5 oz. If crystallized sulphite or carbonate are used, use double thequantity. Now let us expose two sheets of developing paper, Cyko,Velox, or any standard developing paper. Just a word aboutexposure. The correct normal exposure is one in which thedeveloper will reduce all the silver acted upon by the light; inother words, the print will fully develop and then stop. Fur- 152
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THE VERGER AT THE PRIORS DOOR,ELY CATHEDRAL, ENGLAND. DR. G. W. ALLYN. ther development will not make it any darker, but will producestain. If you find it necessary to take your prints out of thedeveloper to prevent them from getting too dark, you areover-exposing, while, if they will not get dark enough, withoutstaining, you are under-exposing. Now, having determined our correct exposure by one ortwo test pieces, give our two prints the correct exposure anddevelop one in A and one in B. The print A (Figure i) willdevelop very quickly, but will be very soft, the shadows willnot be dense black, but of a blue-gray color, nor will the high

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