What is up everybody Matt with Mikey Designs here we're going to talk about
dark room lighting we're in our yellow safe dark room mode dark room mode light
safe room dark safe room UV light safe room yellow room whatever you want to
call it we're gonna talk about some inexpensive options if you're a beginner
or even if you have an established shop stick around and we'll talk about some
of the products that we use welcome back everybody we appreciate you guys tuning
in and don't forget to check our description for links to some of the
products talked about in this video and some of the stuff that we use so here is
our dark room which is practically just the section of our garage shop we have
the overhead light off so that is really the only light in the entire room as you
can see it is very well lit now granted we do have the yellow safe lights on in
our exposure unit and our washout booth is a safe light as well whatever you
want to call it and then we have this overhead light up here which is just a
hanging fluorescent light with UV covers on it there see these yellow amber
lights that we use the bulbs in our exposure unit have a yellow amber
coating on it that is light safe UV safe that is one option that you could go
with but what I really want to talk about is the covers that we have on ER
or overhead light here that is hanging and also behind our wash out booth they
have a similar cover but it's just a slightly different shade of yellow if we
take one of these bulbs out
you'll see that is merely a cover on the light fixture itself and this is your
standard four foot fluorescent light for your work areas or your garage and
you'll see that it has a little in-cab let me try and pull this thing off give
me one second the caps were on there pretty good they've been on there for a
while these lights have lasted quite some time but you'll see it is just a
sleeve that's the light bulb the fluorescent tube light inserts into and
the ones on the washout booth they're very similar but they're slightly a
different shade and you can see that it's the same type of setup for the
covers that we do have on our smaller lights we essentially took the 4-foot
covers and then just cut them down the science that way they fit the lights
dead girl on the back of our washout booth and this was a great solution if
you are working on screens or if you just feel like leaving them out in the
dark room being able to walk in without having any issues having your screens
pre expose the products that we have listed in our link to these covers have
worked fantastic for us for three to four years and they're fairly
inexpensive so have a link to this style of light fixture that you can just hang
from your ceiling and it's a fairly mobile solution for your 4-foot
fluorescent tube lights rather than having a permanent fixture to your
ceiling this is a lot easier to deal with because we just got a couple hooks
and then hung arcs from the ceiling this will also make it easy if you do happen
to move out of let's say you're in a garage and you need to move your setup
you could easily move it to a shop and it will be it will make
life easy some options for you guys that are just starting out and have a very
tight budget we have included links to yellow bulbs as well that will work just
as a great you can get one or two of them whatever lights the area really
well for you so you can see what you're doing those will work just as great keep
in mind that your darkroom does not have to 100% be shut off from outside UV
light in a garage situation if your screens are far enough from the garage
door where the light leaks out it's not a problem if you're in a storage closet
or have some sort of closet where you do have your screens just be sure to keep
them far enough away from the light that seeps out underneath the doors or you
can just use some black garbage bags and tape a little strip down at the bottom
go to Lowe's get you some weather stripping there go around the frame of
the door and that will solve your problems as you can see here we have a
few unexposed screens actually that's exposed but this is unexposed this guy
is unexposed if you look at our garage door it is about one o'clock and there
is some light seeping in it's never been a problem for us so don't freak out
about it just chill out a little bit it's not
that important if you're that concerned about it
get some heavy-duty black lawn garbage bags and put your unexposed screens on
them you can also use these bags to store your screens well guys I hope this
tutorial was helpful for you and getting your darkroom all set up you can do it
for fairly inexpensive with some of these links that we included and really
that's all you need this is all we've used for the four years that we have
been in business and it would work for larger shops as well because really and
truly your darkroom area does not have to take up a huge space
unless you're a huge production shop this will work just fine thanks for
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