Originally Posted by
Mick Fagan
The minimal experience I have had with a friend doing some videography in my darkroom, is that you will not get brilliant imagery, but quite reasonable imagery with Ilford 902 filters.
These are a light brown filter, the ones we used were 203x254mm filters at 1.2m from the paper with a 15W tungsten light globe as the light source. Tripod mounting the camera was another must I seem to remember. Smaller safelight filter sizes, even though they had the same light power source, were a bit harder for the camera to use.
Around 30 years ago at a photographic exhibition, Ilford Australia had a working darkroom on their stand. The darkroom had large plexiglass type windows covered in a rubylith type of material which allowed them to expose and develop paper while people stood outside and watched. I'm not saying it was brilliant, but for the purpose, which was to show darkroom developing, it was great.
You'll probably need to fudge it a bit though, think like a wildlife film maker, the animal being predated upon is one animal, while the animal shown grazing/feeding is often different but in the film shown to be the same animal.
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