From: "Charles H. Sauer" <sauer@technologists.com>
To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: COFF <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: [COFF] Re: Safelights (was: "9 skills our grandkids won't have")
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2022 21:24:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F8F83AFB-4111-4F22-AB9D-101F7E207F23@technologists.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220702012641.GA84351@eureka.lemis.com>
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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@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@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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2022-06-30 14:23 ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] "9 skills our grandkids won't have" - Is this a TUHS topic? Michael Kjörling
2022-06-30 22:02 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
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2022-07-02 0:04 ` [COFF] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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2022-07-02 0:08 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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2022-07-02 1:26 ` [COFF] Safelights (was: "9 skills our grandkids won't have") Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-07-02 2:24 ` Charles H. Sauer [this message]
2022-07-02 2:35 ` [COFF] " Larry McVoy
2022-07-02 2:43 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-07-02 2:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-07-06 9:00 ` Peter Jeremy via COFF
2022-07-06 14:06 ` [COFF] Re: Kodachrome [was Re: Safelights (was: "9 skills our grandkids won't have")] Dan Halbert
2022-07-02 5:21 ` [COFF] Re: Safelights (was: "9 skills our grandkids won't have") Adam Thornton
2022-07-02 5:35 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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2022-07-02 0:12 ` [COFF] Re: "9 skills our grandkids won't have" - Is this a TUHS topic? Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-07-02 3:39 [COFF] Re: Safelights (was: "9 skills our grandkids won't have") Dennis Boone
2022-07-03 1:09 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-07-03 9:49 ` Harald Arnesen
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