Filmomat - A home made film processor

[mudfly9]

This is an incredible piece of work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhgOWvP1vZA&feature=share

 

[Doc W]

This truly is brilliant. Just like my ATL but about 90% smaller!

The only drawback is the cheezy music that it plays while processing.

 

[frobozz]

That's pretty slick!

Duncan

 

[adelorenzo]

Wow, that's really cool!

 

[trythis]

Amazing!


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[DWThomas]

Astounding! It's reassuring to see that ingenuity and creativity has not totally died! I admit to worrying a little about using air for agitation, although if one were using developers one shot, or at least using their capacity quickly, I guess it wouldn't matter (and perhaps nitrogen or some other relatively inert gas could be an option). A spectacular piece of work for sure.

 

[AgX]

Not his first processor...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijmW9RFKYuI



By the way, he is an Apugger too:

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

 

[kb3lms]

Cooler than sliced bread!

 

[bascom49]

Chilll

This truly is brilliant. Just like my ATL but about 90% smaller!

The only drawback is the cheezy music that it plays while processing.

That is the reason I want one....I'm hoping if I buy one I can get a mix tape as well...

 

[Gerald C Koch]

One minor fault it doesn't mix the user a dry martini.

 

[AgX]

Well, our fellow has devised a machine for that too:

http://www.echolot-online.de/Echolot/Cocktail.html

 

[John51]

Just when I thought I'd stopped abusing my credit card, this comes along.

I think the aeration by air can be negated with a bit of planning. Just done some reading up on E6 home processing and the writer of the first guide I came across says he gets to use each batch of chems 4 times but those chems only last a week or 2 once mixed up. I can see that being much less with the air aeration.

However, if the machine was run 4 times in succession, for a total of 8 rolls of film from 500ml of each stage, that would work out to less than a quid per film. (E6 Tetenal 5L price of ~£80.)

Or have I missed something?

 

[gone]

I have an old antique martini mixer at home Gerald. It does a fair job, as long as it gets what it wants now and then. Stirred, not shaken. Pour the white vermouth in the glass, swirl, pour it back in the bottle. Pour good gin in a glass w/ cracked ice, stir well, strain into the aforementioned chilled glass, and serve w/ an optional twist of lemon. In vocatus spirituum veritas.

Right now the old mixer is having a small glass of Hawaiian Whaler's Killer Coconut original rum (bottled in Kentucky). Not it's usual, but that's what the old owner to the new place left in the pantry.

 

[Sirius Glass]

It does not take up enough counter space, I will stick with my Jobo CPP2.

 

[scheimfluger_77]

Cooler than sliced bread!

And that makes it very cool!

Just when I thought I'd stopped abusing my credit card, this comes along. ...

Yes, this is GAS writ large.

 

[Gerald C Koch]

Well, our fellow has devised a machine for that too:

http://www.echolot-online.de/Echolot/Cocktail.html

Some truly worthwhile technology.

 

[bvy]

So I guess a Kickstarter is coming?

 

[Europan]

There is most often a grinch. This time it’s me.

No, no, and no. Analog photography? Handicraft? Electronics again, computerisation of a simple task. Electrocution of one of the most sensual and sensitive parts of the use of photochemical film. Nothing against his brain and abilities, admirable.

I just won’t buy one of these, never. The cocktail mixer, too. How can one want to replace man by an apparatus, I shall never understand it. The robot, yes, I know. работа, russian, work. Can it be that so many humans have lost their balance between mind and hand?

 

[Neal]

Nice!

 

[bvy]

There is most often a grinch. This time it’s me.

No, no, and no. Analog photography? Handicraft? Electronics again, computerisation of a simple task. Electrocution of one of the most sensual and sensitive parts of the use of photochemical film. Nothing against his brain and abilities, admirable.

I just won’t buy one of these, never. The cocktail mixer, too. How can one want to replace man by an apparatus, I shall never understand it. The robot, yes, I know. работа, russian, work. Can it be that so many humans have lost their balance between mind and hand?

There's not much "craft" to C-41 processing. What's the difference in using this versus sending it to a lab?

 

[AgX]

You are faster, you have full control and all means of variation.

A well-known industrial lab for instance only uses a washless process, with stabilizing as last bath.

 

[Sirius Glass]

There's not much "craft" to C-41 processing. What's the difference in using this versus sending it to a lab?

I can cut crossover by using stop bath after the developer.

 

[bvy]

Exactly. The lab is right in front of you.

I do C-41 by hand, and I go through the same routine with every film every time. The only real variable for me is processing time, and it looks like I can dial that into this nifty little machine. It's a tedious process that I'd be happy to automate. I'm more interested in consistency and eliminating opportunities for user error than I am in saying that I shook the tank with my own hands. I can also see where this machine, if properly used, saves water and better maintains chemicals for reuse. Obviously, if the machine doesn't conform to one's own process then it's a moot point (I also add a stop bath after development, and if this is unable to do that, then I'm probably not interested). I'm not saying the thing's infallible, but at least I can monitor the process. For my own part, handicraft happens under the enlarger.

Black and white is a different story.

 

[Sirius Glass]

But I can do black & white on the Jobo processor and I one can do black & white on this processor.

 

[Brian Puccio]

There's not much "craft" to C-41 processing. What's the difference in using this versus sending it to a lab?

Agreed. Right now my "craft" for Provia/Velvia involves:

1. Put it in the fridge in a plastic bag
2. Wait a few months until I have enough film to send
3. Mail the film to a lab upstate
4. Wait for the mail to send me back my slides

Do people also like to open and close the shutter themselves, instead of letting some machine open and close it for them? Do people mix up their chemicals from base elements, but not by measuring volume or mass, but by what feels artistically right?