Re: red safe light

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Seigel" <jseigel@panix.com>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: red safe light

>
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Ryuji Suzuki wrote:
>
>> From: Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>
>>
>>> (I've also had fogging when my red photo bulb got scratches -- most of
>>> them are made with a red lacquer sprayed on top of a regular plain
>>> bulb...
>>> which can scratch, flake or crack. I patched with red nail polish.)
>>
>> Does it have to be red? What difference does it make?
>
> I was out of the green and black nail polish, so I used the red....
>
> As for whether a yellow bulb works for kalli -- I've always used just
> regular room light, but writer said she got fogging with any light. It
> occurs to me however that her "yellow safelight" might also have been
> something for parties or bugs, or from home depot, and not calibrated for
> film use.
>
> It's my understanding, BTW, that any *color* film needs full dark, or at
> most brief green light. I don't know personally, however, having never
> done factory color.
>
> Judy
>
Actually, the color film safelight is blue.

S. Shapiro
Received on Fri Nov 11 14:44:26 2005