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

[Larry McVoy]

I was a photography nerd in the 1980's and we used red lights.  As nerdy
as I was, I remember those times with fond memories.  Something special
about putting the paper in the mix and seeing the picture come out of
nowhere.  And the power you had with dodging to bring what you wanted
into focus.

On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 09:24:28PM -0500, Charles H. Sauer wrote:
> 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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