Comments on: More time in the dark http://hitesman.com/jason_blog/wordpress/2008/08/28/more-time-in-the-dark/ The latest in a chain of attempts to keep friends and family updated about what I've been doing, just finished doing or am thinking about doing. Or at least what I want people to think I've done am doing or will be doing. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:21:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jhitesma http://hitesman.com/jason_blog/wordpress/2008/08/28/more-time-in-the-dark/#comment-74 jhitesma Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:51:52 +0000 http://hitesman.com/jason_blog/wordpress/?p=77#comment-74 I saw those...but they didn't look like they'd be quite right. And they are pretty bright. Bill Butler hooked me up with some old safelight bulbs, though one turned out to be a 100w bug light :D And then a few days later I scored another bulb and 2 fixtures - but they set me back a few bucks. So now I have 2 amber safelights in the bedroom with the enlarger, a red bulb in the laundry room with the trays, and another red bulb in the dining room just outside the actual darkroom. It works quite well, lots of light to work by and no fogging at all after a 5 minute test of pre-sensitized paper! Now I just need to find a 75 or 80mm lens for one of the enlargers to get rid of the falloff when printing 120 negs! I saw those…but they didn’t look like they’d be quite right. And they are pretty bright.

Bill Butler hooked me up with some old safelight bulbs, though one turned out to be a 100w bug light :D And then a few days later I scored another bulb and 2 fixtures - but they set me back a few bucks.

So now I have 2 amber safelights in the bedroom with the enlarger, a red bulb in the laundry room with the trays, and another red bulb in the dining room just outside the actual darkroom.

It works quite well, lots of light to work by and no fogging at all after a 5 minute test of pre-sensitized paper! Now I just need to find a 75 or 80mm lens for one of the enlargers to get rid of the falloff when printing 120 negs!

]]> By: Carlos http://hitesman.com/jason_blog/wordpress/2008/08/28/more-time-in-the-dark/#comment-73 Carlos Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:37:54 +0000 http://hitesman.com/jason_blog/wordpress/?p=77#comment-73 Most of your b/w papers have very low sensitivity to red and orange. It occurs to me they sell red and orange party lights at Home Depot. I wonder if you put a diffuser around them, if they would work as a safelight. I think they are a tad bright for darkroom, that's why I think you could diffuse the light or put one far on the other side of the darkroom. Maybe you could use a lampshade to just bounce the light into the ceiling. Most of your b/w papers have very low sensitivity to red and orange.

It occurs to me they sell red and orange party lights at Home Depot. I wonder if you put a diffuser around them, if they would work as a safelight.

I think they are a tad bright for darkroom, that’s why I think you could diffuse the light or put one far on the other side of the darkroom.

Maybe you could use a lampshade to just bounce the light into the ceiling.

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