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

[Adam Thornton]

No idea at all how old it was.  I mean, a) I was a kid, and b) it was the first darkroom I'd ever seen so I had no basis of comparison.  I'm sure it was at least one and maybe more generations of hand-me-down by the time I got to use it.  But, I mean, "good enough for middle school kids, and we got it for free" was probably good enough, right?

Adam

> On Jul 1, 2022, at 6:26 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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