LED Darkroom Safelight

[@randallstewart1224]

Traditional safelights must use a color filter, but still must operate at very low light levels, This is because, short of hugely excessive cost, those filters pass a range of light wavelengths. They may look red or amber, but they also pass relatively small amounts of light to which photo paper is sensitive. By comparison, the LED passes a very narrow and specific range of wavelengths, so if properly specified, a safelight using them will not "leak" unsafe wavelengths. This allows them to be much brighter, as the paper is far more "blind" to that light, regardless of its intensity.

[@joseerazevedo]

I use a 3W red LED lamp inside a "lamp spot" pointed to the ceiling. It does very well, have done the Kodak and Ilford safelight test and passed on both.

[@HDpackage]

Bright safelight can fog film and paper.

[@davyboyo]

Yeah I'd be doing a test, pictorial planet has a good video on how to conduct such a test 😎 Good to see you back at it BTW

[@TheNegative]

Thanks! I’ll do a test with it.

[@analogsnotdead]

let us know how it goes! @@TheNegative