Midtone Machines: A new fully automatic film processor

Welcome to Midtone Machines, my name is Andrew Burns, a rocket propulsion engineer with a passion for film photography. I've started this blog to allow you to follow along with the development of my as-yet unnamed project, and hopefully so that you can leave feedback and get involved yourselves. Since recently re-discovering the joys of analogue photography I've been immersing myself in as many aspects of the craft as possible. B&W, colour, cine-film, home processing and scanning, large...


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Welcome to Apug!

So far your blog basically does not contain anything more than your statement of the intention to build a processor and to let us look over your shoulder.
Does that mean you have yet not even started and we shall be able to follow you from the first sketches so to say?

AgX, yes I didn't want to put people off with a huge wall of text on my first post so I limited to an introduction. I hope that people will be able to do more than just look over my shoulder, feedback from the people who may be using the final product is very important to having this work out IMO.

The design is slightly more advanced that nothing, I have significant detail design done in CAD and have ordered some prototype components, however it's still early days. It will probably take a few blog posts to fully get up to speed with where the design is now as I think it's important to explain how I got there and the choices I made along the way.