My love of the Polaroid SX-70 apparently extended to building a custom plate and interface for a shooting rig of larger proportion and much faster shooting.
Some pretty big news this update, the Chromabox has finally been unleashed on some film and has developed two sheets of Ilford FP4 plus perfectly! But more on that a little later...
The time approaches when I'm going to start running film through the Chromabox again which will involve taking some photos and videos of the prototype working, and the current laser-cut wooden body is pretty ugly. As I've mentioned previously the...
A simple app to show the coverage of historical Schneider lenses according to the data that used to be presented on the Schneider optics website.
Historical Schneider lens data that used to be on the Schneider optics site but has been removed. I scraped the wayback machine and have represented it here for your convenience.
And now back to my normal broadcasting. Today's update is a bit of a 'bits and pieces' thing, the nature of the Chromabox-4 project at this time is that all of the major problems have been solved and now it's the relatively small but still very...
Back again! First I want to mention that sometime in July my contact form stopped forwarding emails to me and I only realised after somebody helpfully got in touch through the Facebook page. Serves me right for not checking the website more...
Complete tutorial for building a device that allows you to make sun exposures with the same amount of UV radiation even at different times and atmospheric conditions. Useful for cyanotype, gum bichromat, salted paper and other historical...
Welcome back everybody, it's nearly a year since I started this project and as anybody who has taken on something this big knows it can sometimes be hard to maintain motivation. That and some recent family issues has meant that the Chromabox...
Welcome back everybody, it's been a little while since making a blog post, although I have made one or two short Facebook posts so if you don't want to miss them I suggest you like the Midtone Machines Facebook page...
We can all agree on the importance of recording the technical info for each shot you take. We can all also admit that most of us don't do it. At least not consistently. Frankly, part of the problem for me, was finding the right notebook. I've...
Hi all, apologies for the long time between posts but I think we can all understand the obvious reasons there could be for that, given what's happening globally right now, and I'm sure everyone will appreciate me not going on about it.
You might notice there have been a few changes to the website, hopefully between now and when I start to push towards crowd-funding and selling this machine the website will get spruced up a lot as it transitions from development blog to company...
Today I've put together a short video update (I really hate editing videos). Hopefully this shows you a little bit about how the machine will eventually operate and more importantly how the user will interact with it.
I've actually been pretty busy since my last blog post and that's a good thing as it's all been solid progress (even the things that sometimes feel like backwards progress...). First up, I've completely pulled the machine apart and re-built it...
Last post I showed off some renders of custom PCBs I'd been designing for the machine, and today I'm happy to say that I can show off the finished things!
Just like a duck on the water it may look calm from the outside but I've been churning away furiously in the background designing some custom PCB's (printed circuit boards). Generally I'm a person who values real progress over stunts and so I...
We've been playing with Kodak's Ektascan Xray film. Cool stuff. It has a tabular grain (rumor is that it's the same emulsion as their TMax but without the panchromatic dyes) and is single sided. And cheap, about a buck a sheet for 8x10. Of...
Sorry that it's been a long time since my last post but there has been a ton of progress since then! Still on track to develop some film by the end of the year
As those of you who read the Facebook page would know, last week a set of vacuum resin cast parts arrived, enough to make 10 machines! Vacuum resin casting is a rapid prototyping technique to make strong, high quality and fully functional parts...
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