put a red filter under the lens and turn the enlarger on (focus) - that should give you enough light to change the setting... On Monday, October 24, 2005, at 10:41AM, Ben R. McRee <ben.mcree@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >After a fews days and nights with my new setup, one of the challenges >I've discovered is reading the filter settings on the dichroic head >under safelight so that I can change contrast for burning in. With >paper in the easel I obviously can't turn the room lights on or use >the enlarger to illuminate them as I do when making the initial >settings. So what do you do? > >What I've done (making it up as I go along) is to cover the paper >with a piece of cardboard, then use a penlight partly covered with my >hand to illuminate the filter windows. Something tells me there >must be a better way. > >--Ben >============================================================================================================= >To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your >account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) >and unsubscribe from there. > > -- joe suburbs the post modern hyper rural sub urban anti hero and vertiginous surrealist ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.