[COFF] Safelights (was: "9 skills our grandkids won't have")

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Sat Jul 2 11:26:41 AEST 2022


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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