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Title: The American annual of photography
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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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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at some length to the bromoil process, a processwhich in the hands of the enthusiast is hard to equal, andalmost impossible to excel. But to many who have tried itdiscouragement and failure have been the portion. To suchI say try again, and perhaps a few suggestions in the matterof working details may be of assistance.Try the following developer: Water 20 oz. Sulphite of soda (Anhydrous) ^ oz. Amidol 50 grs. Potassium Bromide 10 grs. Bi-Sulphite of soda 50 grs. Use the developer immediately after it has been compoundedand use fresh developer for each print. If an 11 x.14 printbe soaked in water for forty-five seconds before development,an ounce of the foregoing solution will be ample. Expose the print so that it begins to appear in the developerin about 30 seconds and develops fully in four minutes.Rinse the print. Fix it for ten minutes in the following bath,freshly compounded: Water 20 oz. Hypo 2 oz. Sodium bisulphite 200 grs. After fixing wash for ten minutes and dry the print. T06
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w< X oo o ffi ■ H < I—I w< w I—( < CQ 107 It may be bleached at any time within reason, and I havefound that I have no difficulty in inking a print one yearold at the time of bleaching. There are numerous—almost innumerable—formulae forthe bleach. The S. H. Williams bleacher, which can bebought in the supply-houses and only needs to be diluted toone-third of its strength, is as good as any and saves work.It has the additional advantage of requiring no sulphuric acidbath after bleaching, the print being fixed for five minutesin a 5% hypo bath, washed for ten minutes and dried. It isthen ready for soaking and w^ill keep indefinitely. A very pleasing and exceedingly interesting method ofafter treatment of a bromide print is to make a bromoil trans-fer. This is done by making a bromoil print in the mannerabove indicated and then super-imposing on the bromoil asheet of good paper such as Michallet or Whatman, or oneof the Japan Paper Company papers, passing the twoshe

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