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I loaded my first film in 20 years yesterday and did it with eyes open, 'watching' what I was doing, when I tore the tape holding the film to the paper I saw 2 flashes of light? must have been some static buildup.
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I've heard about static like that. I tend to pull the tape slowly to remove it. I work mostly with a changing bag, so it could be flashing every time and I just don't see it. I haven't noticed any fogging of the film, but I suspect a big static flash would be capable of causing some fogging.
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I close my eyes both when I'm in the darkroom and when I use a changing tent.
I find it helps me "see" Interestingly, I had this conversation with a commercial darkroom manager and all her staff did it too while loading film in complete darkness - no matter how long they had worked there. We might be strange - but we are all strange together. Martin |
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It may be that the act of shutting your eyelids triggers a different cognitive process and a subconcious instinct tells you to close your eyes when you want one of your other senses to take precedence over vision.
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I work with my eyes open as I have to check to be sure that the room has no light getting in round the door curtain. What I find surprising is that your eyes have to get used to the black out. On a number of occasions I have noticed stray light getting in after being in the dark for half a minute or so.
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However, I do wonder how dark our darkrooms are, I used to develop film in my darkroom, at night to minimise the possibility of stray light leakage. I would also turn out all the house lights in the vicinity. I couldn't see a thing even after an hour or so, however, one of my cats who sneaked in with me seemed to able to navigate perfectly. I never heard him bump in to anything or me as I moved around. It just made me wonder about how dark my darkroom is and how well adapted to the dark cats really are. Martin |
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I have recently finished my new darkroom and i'm still plugging light leaks I think I've got them all now but the latest ones I didn't notice until I turned off the safe light during a printing session, I find this amazing after the number of times I sat there in the dark intently looking for leaks, you're right Martin it can sometimes take a long time to notice small leaks.
Richard |
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Amateur astronomers advise forty minutes for the eyes to become fully dark-adapted.
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