safelight
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thumb|Fixed safelight in darkroom. thumb|An amber (light brown) safelight for use with certain black-and-white photographic papers
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thumb|Fixed safelight in darkroom. thumb|An amber (light brown) safelight for use with certain black-and-white photographic papers
A safelight is a light source suitable for use in a photographic darkroom. It provides illumination only from parts of the visible spectrum to which the photographic material in use is nearly, or completely insensitive.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “safelight” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.