Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > On Nov 4, 2009, at 7:16 PM, Richard Man wrote: > >> What are you? A doctor?!!! > > > yes, but..... > > I am reading all this stuff... > > > http://www.subclub.org/darkroom/safety.htm > " Use tubes instead of trays for all processing. " Wildly delusional and totally out of the loupe would be thus my opinion on the subclub. Fiber doesn't work with tubes and if they did you'd still not want to use them. Use rubber gloves with trays and you'll do fine making an effort to not smell the powders. If you know what it smells like its already entered your body. (Dektol vs. Hypo) Make sure you don't know. Know by reading not smelling. Most people who have had darkroom problems come from a generation (The 60's and before) where they used their hands not tongs and nobody cared about stuff like not breathing powders. Arthritis was what a lot of these guys seemed to have gotten from no tongs. Rarely anything else. 1 in 1000 gets Metol / Elon reactions. They need to stay out of the darkroom but maybe go with Phenidone. Its the people who experimenting in alternate processes who run into trouble. Gum Bichromate. potassium dichromate is nasty stuff. Platinum printing maybe I think I heard will do you in if your stupid. But since the 70's at a college darkroom they made you be careful. That's when I switched from my hands to tongs. Mark William Rabiner