Kodak Endura might be back

[koraks]

Yeah, that looks familiar. My experience, too, is that a safelight level that's useful to work with, will fog the paper. I second the earlier suggestions of trying IR goggles if you really want/need to see what you're doing. I personally just do everything in the dark.

 

[pentaxuser]

We may ( I am tempted to say delete the word "may"and substitute the word "will" based on previous discussions ) never reach a consensus on whether any colour safelight inevitably causes a fogging problem with colour paper and I know nothing about the Thomas safelight but my DUKA 10 seems to work OK set at a low level with the light bouncing off a white ceiling.

Yes the DUKA takes possibly 10 minutes to warm to operating temperature each time it is switched off and then on and my understanding is that until it has reached the operating temperature it may not be safe. So allow it to warm up initially and then do not switch it off until you have finished your printing session

Secondly for a few minutes after switching on a room light your eyes need time to accustom to the darkness after you switch the room light off, so yes, switching on and off the room light each time or indeed any time to check for colour correction may take 10 mins for full re-accommodation time. However with a DUKA the ability to see enough to be able to pull the paper out of a safe, place it under the enlarger and then take it to whatever you use for developing does not take anything like 10mins or doesn't in my case but as I said that's a DUKA and not a Thomas

Our member BMbikerider is also a DUKA user and I cannot recall him having safelight fogging issues with his either

So yes that two of us who don't have fogging problems with a DUKA set at the right level that allows us to see enough to print on RA4.

pentaxuser