Definition of "safelight" []

• A lamp having one or more color filters allowing moderate darkroom illumination without affecting photosensitive film or paper. (noun)

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• "But I want to get in there and burn and dodge and watch a print rise up like a ghost from the yellow under the safelight paper."
• "All I miss now are brown-tipped fingers from the Dektol and old movies in the darkroom on the red-gelled 9 black and white TV we used to use as a safelight."
• "What is the word for a room in which photographic materials are processed, either in complete darkness or with a safelight?"