[Leica] chemicals and computer screen?

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Tina Manley said:
Subject: Re: [Leica] chemicals and computer screen?


> Ted -
>
> One of the reasons I switched to digital was headaches in the darkroom! 
> After many years of working in the darkroom - always well-ventilated with 
> a powerful fan - , I began to get headaches after about half an hour.  The 
> time until the headaches started kept getting shorter and shorter until I 
> could only spend about 10 minutes in there before I would get splitting 
> headaches and have to stop.  I think it must be a cumulative thing and I 
> hate to think what it has done to my liver over the years -  worse than 
> the Lagavulin, I'm sure!!<

Hi Tina,
Well I can sure handle a Lagavulin headache much easier than this past 
couple of days in "chemical hang over!" :-(

The time factor was almost immediate as we started working over the chemical 
sink and I had to leave after a few minutes, go outside to "Get a breath or 
two of fresh air." Never happened in all these years and I've had to work in 
what I called "deadly darkrooms!" In those cases it was a joke comment. 
However?

Maybe it wasn't such a joking thing after all and it's something showing up 
after a lengthy time out and now time back in. So it means we have to do 
something in venting more and time in the dark to get out for breaks 
quicker. I can't imagine wearing masks in the darkroom, but then? Who knows 
maybe we should have been doing that all alone?

Thanks for your comments, good to know I'm not alone.
ted