[pure-silver] Re: New Darkroom New Question

  • From: Matthew Gaylen <mgaylen@xxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:55:37 -0500

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
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