Forum: Film Processing, Scanning, and Darkroom
12-27-2009, 12:01 AM
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You wrote"Btw. some people have told me that you cannot work with B&W film under red light, because most current films are sensitive to it.
Is this true for B&W as well?
How do you make prints then, or is the paper still insensitive ?"
B&W film is termed "panchromatic" that is sensitive to light of all colours and should be processed in total darkness. However since you will be using some sort of film tank it is merely necessary to load the film in the dark. The processing can be carried out under normal room light. Some have in emergency climbed in under the blankets to load tank!
Paper on the other hand is not sensitive to light fron the yellow to red portion, is nowhere near as fast as colour film and can be processed under a bright amber safelight. Colour film is sensitive to all colours and is in any case usually machine processed as temperature control is very critical (+- .5C or less)
After processing many tens, perhaps hunderds of negs and prints in everything from sou plates to high-speed continuous machines, I am now happy to shoot digital and "develop" in Adobe LIGHTroom.
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