Re: fluorescents

[Andrew Davidhazy <ANDPPH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My $.02 worth ...

Fluorescent tubes that are sleeved with safelight quality filter material
should not fog photographic papers any more than tungsten ones. The filters
will also remove any UV that _might_ be produced by the tubes.

The biggest trouble IMHO is that fluorescent tubes will usually not turn
off immediately and if used in a film loading room (espcially as unsleeved
tubes and to a lesser extent safelight sleeved ones possibly as well) the 
_light_ that they still emit as "afterglow" will to a lesser or greater extent
fog film.
        
I am not so sure that what we are talking about is UV emission.

regards,

Andy  o o  0 0 o . o  Andrew Davidhazy, Imaging and Photo Tech
       \/\/\/\/\/\/   http://www.rit.edu/~andpph  716-475-2592  
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