Larry Cloetta
Veteran
Wasn’t sure how to title the thread, and even less sure if people would be interested, but here is a link to some information on another forum posted by someone who is attempting to create a better mousetrap, with regards to home film processing.
https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...fp-yet-another-desktop-film-processor.164871/
Surprisingly, it hasn’t received significant play over at APUG. Not sure why, though it takes a few minutes to look at the videos and understand what he’s doing, as it might not be immediately obvious. Seems very slick to me, if it does a nice job, even the scanning option, though he hardly even mentions that. It’s like a nitrogen burst processor, instead of rotary, no bigger than a breadbox.
Seemed potentially noteworthy to me, and and amazing effort for home brew, though I might be a bit Pollyanna-ish. Cost aside, I’d want one, if it yielded professional results, and I can’t see why it wouldn’t. Makes a Jobo seem antediluvian.
https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...fp-yet-another-desktop-film-processor.164871/
Surprisingly, it hasn’t received significant play over at APUG. Not sure why, though it takes a few minutes to look at the videos and understand what he’s doing, as it might not be immediately obvious. Seems very slick to me, if it does a nice job, even the scanning option, though he hardly even mentions that. It’s like a nitrogen burst processor, instead of rotary, no bigger than a breadbox.
Seemed potentially noteworthy to me, and and amazing effort for home brew, though I might be a bit Pollyanna-ish. Cost aside, I’d want one, if it yielded professional results, and I can’t see why it wouldn’t. Makes a Jobo seem antediluvian.
B-9
Devin Bro
Larry, Thanks for sharing!
That machine could be really useful in my shop.
Sometimes I get a backlog of test rolls (any more than 4) and it takes the good part out of a afternoon developing them 1 or 2 at a time then running them through the scanner. Time I could be rolling films and refining packaging. At this point I only get 2 maybe 3 days out of the week to work on my film. Hopefully taking it up full time this spring with a web store.
The air burst agitation is something I am not familiar with but for my needs I’m sure it would be fine. After all I’m developing test rolls, never keepers.
Gonna watch this one closely!
That machine could be really useful in my shop.
Sometimes I get a backlog of test rolls (any more than 4) and it takes the good part out of a afternoon developing them 1 or 2 at a time then running them through the scanner. Time I could be rolling films and refining packaging. At this point I only get 2 maybe 3 days out of the week to work on my film. Hopefully taking it up full time this spring with a web store.
The air burst agitation is something I am not familiar with but for my needs I’m sure it would be fine. After all I’m developing test rolls, never keepers.
Gonna watch this one closely!