Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lamp having one or more color filters allowing moderate darkroom illumination without affecting photosensitive film or paper.
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- noun the
lamp in adarkroom
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Examples
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But I want to get in there and burn and dodge and watch a print rise up like a ghost from the yellow under the safelight paper.
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Adorama darkroom safelight 5 "x7" size, light amber (oc) filtered, wall or ceiling mountable or free standing
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All I miss now are brown-tipped fingers from the Dektol and old movies in the darkroom on the red-gelled 9 black and white TV we used to use as a safelight.
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Adorama darkroom safelight 5 "x7" size, light amber (oc) filtered, wall or ceiling mountable or free standing
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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What is the word for a room in which photographic materials are processed, either in complete darkness or with a safelight?
November 2007 2007
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I turn off my safelight and, in complete darkness, load the rolls of film onto developing reels.
You've Been Warned Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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He turned on the safelight and turned off the bare bulb.
IRON LAKE William Kent Krueger 2001
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He gestured for Molly to switch off the safelight, then he carefully opened the door.
IRON LAKE William Kent Krueger 2001
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He turned on the safelight and turned off the bare bulb.
IRON LAKE William Kent Krueger 2001
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He gestured for Molly to switch off the safelight, then he carefully opened the door.
IRON LAKE William Kent Krueger 2001
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