Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each darkroom tool to its job.
- Grain magnifier
- Easel
- Safelight
- Timer
- Focusing on the grain itself at the baseboard, wide open
- Holding the paper flat and setting the borders
- Making an exposure repeatable from one sheet to the next
- Light of a colour the paper cannot see
Hints
- Two are about geometry and two about light and time.
- One of them exists so that a decision can be reproduced rather than remembered.
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- Grain magnifier → Focusing on the grain itself at the baseboard, wide open
- Easel → Holding the paper flat and setting the borders
- Safelight → Light of a colour the paper cannot see
- Timer → Making an exposure repeatable from one sheet to the next
Why
The timer is the least glamorous and the most consequential. Everything in this lesson assumes exposures can be repeated to the second, and a printer counting under their breath cannot hold a third of a stop, which is exactly the increment the whole method is built on.
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