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WELLINGTON B.B. — the initials mean Brown-Black—
is a development paper, intermediate in speed between
bromide and S.C.P. In many important respects it
differs from any of the papers previously described.
Bromide and S.C.P. with normal treatment give cool black
tones. Subsequent toning allows of sepias and even reds being
produced, but no really satisfactory method has been found whereby
bromide paper can be made to yield warm black tones.
It is only necessary to examine a collection of good mezzotints
to be convinced of the beauty and suitability of warm black for
pictures in monochrome, and it is hardly surprising that photo-
graphers should again and again, but always without success, have
sought for some simple means of imparting this colour to their
prints and enlargements.
WELLINGTON B.B. gives a warm black tone by simple
development, just as readily and just as unfailingly as WELLING-
TON Bromide and S.C.P. give a cool black. A B.B. print,
moreover, possesses a certain indefinable " quality " which dis-
tinguishes it from a print in any other process.
It would be futile to attempt to describe just what a good
B.B. print is like. Only a trial of the paper, or an examination
of some prints, can give any clear idea of this, but the following
notes will be helpful to the reader in making a selection of the
most suitable grade for his work.
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