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Title: Bromide Printing and Enlarging
A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact
and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light,
With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements

Author: John A. Tennant

Release Date: February 18, 2008 [EBook #24637]

Language: English

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BROMIDE PRINTING AND ENLARGING

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE MAKING OF BROMIDE PRINTS BY CONTACT AND BROMIDE
ENLARGING BY DAYLIGHT AND ARTIFICIAL LIGHT, WITH THE TONING OF BROMIDE
PRINTS AND ENLARGEMENTS

TENNANT AND WARD

NEW YORK

Copyright 1912 by

TENNANT AND WARD, NEW YORK

CONTENTS

Chapter I

VARIETIES OF BROMIDE PAPERS AND HOW TO CHOOSE AMONG THEM

Chapter II

THE QUESTION OF LIGHT AND ILLUMINATION

Chapter III

MAKING CONTACT PRINTS ON BROMIDE PAPER; PAPER NEGATIVES

Chapter IV

ENLARGING BY DAYLIGHT METHODS

Chapter V

ENLARGING BY ARTIFICIAL LIGHT

Chapter VI

DODGING, VIGNETTING, COMPOSITE PRINTING AND THE USE OF BOLTING SILK

Chapter VII

THE REDUCTION AND TONING OF BROMIDE PRINTS AND ENLARGEMENTS

CHAPTER I

VARIETIES OF BROMIDE PAPERS AND HOW TO CHOOSE AMONG THEM

What is bromide paper? It is simply paper coated with gelatino-bromide of
silver emulsion, similar to that which, when coated on glass or other
transparent support, forms the familiar dry-plate or film used in
negative-making. The emulsion used in making bromide paper, however, is
less rapid (less sensitive) than that used in the manufacture of plates or
films of ordinary rapidity; hence bromide paper may be manipulated with
more abundant light than would be safe with plates. It is used for making
prints by contact with a negative in the ordinary printing frame, and as
the simplest means for obtaining enlarged prints from small negatives.
Sometimes bromide paper is spoken of as a development paper, because