Filmomat - A home made film processor

[fotch]

Quite a machine, looks like it would be expensive. As long as my brain keeps working, my Jobo & me can do it all.

 

[Henning Serger]

So I guess a Kickstarter is coming?

You can already order the machine. He, Lukas Fritz, will build it for you.
Just look at the sub-text of the video.

By the way, there will be further new developing machines in the next months from other (established) manufacturers, too.
Because they see an increasing demand for such film processors (e.g. the new Jobo CPP3 was a success on the market).
Stay tuned......

Best regards,
Henning

 

[bvy]

Very cool. I missed that.

 

[pentaxuser]

After 3 pages can anyone here tell us how much it costs, apart from the inventor who chooses not to mention price as far as I can see?

It was said that Rolls Royce never mentioned how many miles its cars did to the gallon because if you needed to know that information you couldn't afford one . Of course that may not be a fair analogy but it does make one wonder.


pentaxuser

 

[AgX]

That he did not react to this thread might explain things. But you could pm him and ask.

 

[daleeman]

Oh I know this is the same inventor that will invent the replicator in Starships that can create PB&J sandwiches on demand from a digital pattern held in memory.

"Computer; 1 PB&J on white bread"

Well until that event in future comes, this is one cool processor. Is it run by a Raspberry Pi? Any price yet?

 

[macfred]

Automatic Color Film Processor

This is nice, isn't it ... ?

[video=youtube_share;BhgOWvP1vZA]http://youtu.be/BhgOWvP1vZA[/video]

 

[Sirius Glass]

This is the subject of a recent thread. Moderators would you merge the threads, please?

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[macfred]

This is the subject of a recent thread. Moderators would you merge the threads, please?

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

Thank you, Sirius !
I was inattentive ...

 

[SuzanneR]

Two threads merged!

 

[EdSawyer]

The microcontroller programming is the really cool part of this. The rest has been done (and more elegantly) by others: Phototherm, Jobo, Wing-Lynch, etc.

 

[RattyMouse]

Just a few days after being published, the video has 27,000 some odd views and nearly 60 comments, with people begging for this thing to get kickstarted.

Yeah, film is dead.

 

[fiddle]

We went back and forth on emails.
Unit will be available next month, he's working on some small issues.. Will be built to order, about 2000 euros, although he's still determining parts costs...

 

[John51]

You forgot to mention.... No Warranty.

 

[Ai Print]

That is beautiful!
If I did not already have a CPP3 and a bunch of Expert Drums, I might have considered it.

 

[Sirius Glass]

That is beautiful!
If I did not already have a CPP3 and a bunch of Expert Drums, I might have considered it.

Replace CPP3 with CPP2 and that is what I said.

 

[MattKing]

I'm drawn by the relatively small size of it.

 

[madgardener]

I'm concerned that with color processing it's designed for blix. Currently I am waiting for the chems recommended in the APUG article on how to separate the blix to bleach and fix. If it works as well as others say, I'm not sure I want to spend almost $2200 on a blix only machine.

 

[AgX]

Adding a further bath should not be a problem, though perhaps that is contrary to the design idea.

 

[EdSawyer]

Agreed, you need at least 4 tanks for color done right (dev, bleach, fix, stabilizer/final rinse).

 

[Lachlan Young]

The Jobo ATL 1000/1500 manages just fine using 3 tanks for full C41 dev/ bleach/ fix - stabiliser is a manual post-wash stage anyway.

 

[wblynch]

The Jobo ATL 1000/1500 manages just fine using 3 tanks for full C41 dev/ bleach/ fix - stabiliser is a manual post-wash stage anyway.

^^^ this!

Now, can E-6 be done well in three baths?

 

[Lachlan Young]

^^^ this!

Now, can E-6 be done well in three baths?

Depends on who you ask... the Jobo can do both quite happily.

There are plenty of folk who are perfectly happy with the 3-bath Tetenal kit, but that should be weighed against Photo Engineer's comments about retained silver in film blixes.

For my own work, I'd be happy with a system that can handle C41 & BW properly - E6 would be a nice extra. On the other hand, the Filmomat is a fraction of the size of a Jobo - which counts massively in its favour.

 

[Sirius Glass]

If it is going to cost on the order of the cost of a Jobo, then I would want it big so that I would feel that I got my money's worth.

 

[AgX]

Meanwhile sales endeavours have reached a commercial status.
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