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

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday,  1 July 2022 at 19:35:02 -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 09:24:28PM -0500, Charles H. Sauer wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.

Hmm.  Strange.  Maybe it's a USA thing.  I *have* seen a red safelight
(I bought a red filter for our school safelight just for the fun of
it), but I can't recall anybody using one in earnest.

Greg
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