Ok, I wanna hear about LED safelighting!
Ok, I wanna hear about LED safelighting!
Go look for a thread titled "Kodak OC Safelight filters" started by me. Right now, it's the 2nd page of "Darkroom:Equipment"
Pretty neat, by mobile how so? Tent, van, trailer? What sort of electrical are you running your nifty LEDs off?Originally Posted by Jwheeler331
Haven't quite finished it yet but here is a quick photo of my Mobile Darkroom.
So do I - please!
Nice! I am looking forward to sing the Kodak Siphon Tray Washer my uncle gave me from the 1950s!That would be nice though
First print in the new DR:
yes do tell more about this mobile design / project!
LED darkroom safelights. I use this bulb, a G11 globe.
https://www.superbrightleds.com/cat/...,Red,136,4639:
and this for the housing (or similar)
http://www.homedepot.com/p/75-Watt-I...0PDQ/205139241
I used red LED Christmas tree lights for a while, but they were too bright. Here's some pix of current setup with above products. I have four over the process sink and two in the corners of the printing area. It's plenty. I could do with fewer, but I like it this way. Even though LEDs appear as white in pix 3 & 4, they are red as in pic 2.
I also have a few of the G11 bulb mentioned above. I did a test with some paper held right up against the bulb for about a minute. When developed, only the center part of the paper right up against the bulb was exposed and developed not even to total black. So they are really good and surprisingly bright but don't even get close to fogging paper in normal usage, at least in my test with Ilford MGIV Fiber.
6x12 cargo trailer.
Strip LED lights converted to complete DC power. Using a 12v battery that I robbed out of one of my kids old power wheels.
Using it for making tintype and ambrotypes.
https://youtu.be/Gob0I3zgzLs
Last edited by Jwheeler331; 9-Apr-2017 at 19:09.
Very Nice setup!
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