Re: Levels & Curves (Darkroom dangers)

[byard pidgeon <bluedove@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 12/27/2001 02:50 AM, Kennedy McEwen at rkm@kennedym.demon.co.uk wrote:
Kennedy, this is very bad opinion/advice you're giving.

I have chronic skin damage on my hands from developer and fixer, as well as
the bronchial problems from breathing the stuff.

A lot of photographers have been hurt by the all too common thinking,
promoted primarily by Kodak's home darkroom literature back in the pre-OSHA
days, that it's just a harmless, safe hobby.

It is not, and never was.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a fanatic about darkroom safety, because my life has been
adversely affected, and I try to keep others from making the same mistakes
and suffering the same consequences.

>> 
> I don't believe the hazard from conventional black & white chemicals is
> significant - it is a lot more dangerous breathing the fixer fumes than
> putting your hands in the developer or fixer, providing you wash them
> immediately afterwards.  Colour chemicals are a completely different
> matter though.

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