Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/16

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Subject: Re: Hollywood & Photography
From: Harrison McClary <hmphoto@delphi.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 16:30:14 -0500

>Well, the one conceit Hollywood uses which I find especially gagging is the
>red darkroom light.  They have cleaved to this since the days of b&w
>movies, even though the development of panchromatic film in the 1930's
>changed the colour of our safelights from red to dark yellow-green.

It is even worse when they show someone printing COLOR photos under the red
light.  I have never "seen" anyone print color as everywhere I have done it
it is in very near total darkness!

Harrison McClary
hmphoto@delphi.com
http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto