Apple Watch Warning

[Jim Noel]

Never, NEVER wear your Apple watch while handling sheet film in the dark. It has a habit of flashing on at the most inopportune times.
I just proved it.

[Tin Can]

Ditto with the damn iPhone although I find my SE if laid face down on a very flat surface i is safe, but i usually cover that with a film holder.

What I want is a voice activated smart timer that rings and doesn't light up. Audible countdown would be nice.

I have been experimenting with Alexa, but she's still too dumb...

I do have an electronic metronome with an option for no flashing red light. But mostly I just count seconds silently.

[Keith Pitman]

Never, NEVER wear your Apple watch while handling sheet film in the dark. It has a habit of flashing on at the most inopportune times.
I just proved it.

Yes, found that out. Also, if you use an Apple Watch to time an exposure, the screen will blank out in the middle.

[ic-racer]

I set my iPhone so three taps of the button makes the screen red so I can use it when printing.

[j.e.simmons]

The same with a Fitbit. I fogged a sheet of film with mine.
For a timer, I use an Everlast - yes the boxing equipment company. It can be set to use two different length timers and it has a good, loud boxing bell sounding alarm. It also alarms when you start it, so you know it started.

[Tin Can]

Looks good, but there is an app for that...

http://www.intervaltimer.com/create/...interval-timer

The same with a Fitbit. I fogged a sheet of film with mine.
For a timer, I use an Everlast - yes the boxing equipment company. It can be set to use two different length timers and it has a good, loud boxing bell sounding alarm. It also alarms when you start it, so you know it started.

[Jac@stafford.net]

Someone tell me of the virtues of this Apple watch thing.

[Greg]

Last year was tray processing 2 sheets of 11x14 FP-4 +. At the end of the film being in the developer, my iPhone went off. It was in my t-shirt pocket with its screen facing out. The film was ruined. Now don't even take my iPhone into the darkroom...

Akin to the time I was in the darkroom processing 4x5 sheet film and the director of our department opened the outside access door (who knew he had the key to the door's lock) to show a tour through the department.

[Bob Salomon]

Someone tell me of the virtues of this Apple watch thing.

Convenient, tells the weather, times cooking, measures pulse rate, tracks excercise, functions as a phone, gps while driving and lots more!

[jp]

Someone tell me of the virtues of this Apple watch thing.

If someone sees it on you and recognizes it as an apple watch, they know you are both moderately affluent and nerdy. Nerd fashion. I gave up wearing a watch when I got a pager in 1995. But I would totally wear a nixie tube watch, but I don't spend money on watches.

If i have my phone in the darkroom, it goes in my back pocket which is big enough for a film holder and the phone does not shine out of it. I do have a laptop in the darkroom for watching youtube while developing film (daylight combiplan tank)