[COFF] Safelights (was: "9 skills our grandkids won't have")
Charles H. Sauer
sauer at technologists.com
Sat Jul 2 12:24:28 AEST 2022
I recall three darkrooms that I used, in 1960 a makeshift one in bathroom in my home,
a regular one in an armory in Greenbelt MD about the same time, and one in the student union at UT Austin about 1970. All three used red lights IIRC.
> On Jul 1, 2022, at 8:26 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday, 1 July 2022 at 17:57:35 -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
>> On Jul 1, 2022, at 5:08 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
>>> On Friday, 1 July 2022 at 20:12:44 +0200, Harald Arnesen wrote:
>>>> Except that we didn't use red light in our darkrooms at all, at least
>>>> not from the 1970s and on. ...
>>>
>>> Correct. I started darkroom work in 1964, and from the beginning we
>>> used amber safelights. I don't think red safelights have been used
>>> since long before that.
>>
>> When I learned film photography in the mid 1980s the darkroom had
>> red lights. Of course it was a very old darkroom in a middle school,
>> so I'm sure that _adequate_ darkrooms had better equipment.
>
> Hmm. Any idea how old the equipment is? I suppose you wouldn't
> expect people to replace existing, functional equipment without good
> reason.
>
> Greg
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