 thumb|right|a dark room in a high school, which is part of the school's photography classroom. thumb|right|in the darkroom. a darkroom is a room that can be made completely dark to allow the processing of light sensitive photographic materials, including photographic film and photographic paper. darkrooms have been created and used since the inception of photography in the early 19th century. darkrooms have many various manifestations, from the elaborate space used by ansel adams to a retooled ambulance wagon used by timothy h. o'sullivan. from the initial development to the creation of prints, the darkroom process allows complete control over the medium. due to the popularity of color photography and complexity of processing color film (see c-41 process) and printing color photographs and also to the rise, first of polaroid technology and later digital photography, darkrooms are decreasing in popularity, though are still commonplace on college campuses, schools and in the studios of many professional photographers. other applications of darkrooms include the use in nondestructive testing, such as magnetic particle inspection. ==darkroom equipment==  in most darkrooms, an enlarger, an optical apparatus similar to a slide projector, that projects the image of a negative onto a base, finely controls the focus, intensity and duration of light, is used for printmaking. a sheet of photographic paper is exposed to the enlarged image from the negative. when making black-and-white prints, a safelight is commonly used to illuminate the work area. since the majority of black-and-white papers are sensitive to only blue, or to blue and green light, a red- or amber-colored light can be safely used without exposing the paper. color print paper, being sensitive to all parts of the visible spectrum, must be kept in complete darkness until the prints are properly fixed. another use for a darkroom is to load film in and out of cameras, development spools, or film holders, which requires complete darkness. lacking a darkroom, a photogr
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