As I mentioned, I got a Craigslist pair of these for $12.50 each. I am a big spender. They both needs bulbs and filters and some cleaning up. Or maybe new cords and not bulbs, I haven't started on them yet.
My question is, if I only use them for b&w printing, with the vanes always open some to let the orange-ish light out, does it really matter at all what is in the upper/outer slots of the moving vanes? I didn't realize (I have had one of these for years) that the vanes apparently do have some deep, dark nearly opaque filters in them. Why couldn't I just put together new orange filters for the fixed in-body slots, and put black cardboard in the vanes so I can close it up and make it dark when I want to? Why wouldn't that work just fine?
Thanks.
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