{"id":478,"date":"2019-03-05T10:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=478"},"modified":"2019-03-05T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:01:31","slug":"filmomat-a-really-cool-film-processor-that-handles-35mm-up-to-5x7in-sheet-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Filmomat: A really cool film processor that handles 35mm up to 5x7in sheet film!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following (lusting after?) the Filmomat since it was first introduced, and at that time the creator had just made it for himself.\u00a0 Now sometime later he&#8217;s made it available for sale (although it&#8217;s kind of pricy) and that is really exciting.\u00a0 What makes it so cool?<\/p>\n<p>First off, it&#8217;s really difficult to develop color film at home &#8211; the chemicals aren&#8217;t expensive or dangerous but color film processing just requires really steady temperature control and at higher temperatures like 100 deg F.\u00a0 \u00a0 Imagine a self-contained unit that you could have at home or in the office that doesn&#8217;t need to be connected to running water to work.\u00a0 You can process your film using the standard chemistry and times already loaded intot the machine or you could create your own programs and experiment with different chemistry.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Filmomat has its own chemistry tanks inside and holds a reservoir of water for rinses.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t need to connect it to anything.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I have a Jobo which I only use for color film processing and never for black and white.\u00a0 The Jobo is basically a glorified water bath that keeps the chemistry at the temperature you set.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a huge PIA really to work with, and it has a sloppy chem pour method, and yes that&#8217;s correct &#8211; most Jobo&#8217;s do not mix the chemistry for you. With a Jobo you have to do all the timing yourself, stand by waiting to remove the tank, change the chemicals, and so forth.\u00a0 It&#8217;s real saving grace is the efficiency of the drums where very little chemistry is needed.\u00a0 \u00a0In contrast, the Filmomat does so much more!\u00a0 \u00a0Imagine being able to go do something else while your film is being processed, your way, with your choice of chemistry!\u00a0 It&#8217;s all automatic!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmomat.eu\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/P1200009.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmomat.eu\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historic.camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/P1190634.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Filmomat is a fully automatic table-top film processor. It allows you to process your C41, E6 and bw films at home &#8211; reproducible and with full process control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmomat.eu\/\">Filmomat<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following (lusting after?) the Filmomat since it was first introduced, and at that time the creator had just made it for himself.\u00a0 Now sometime later he&#8217;s made it available for sale (although it&#8217;s kind of pricy) and that is really exciting.\u00a0 What makes it so cool? First off, it&#8217;s really difficult to develop color film at home &#8211; the chemicals aren&#8217;t expensive or dangerous but color film processing just requires really steady temperature control and at higher temperatures<a class=\"entry-more\" href=\"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=478\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[233,230,204,229,12,232,231,74],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-camera-or-products","tag-automatic","tag-black-and-white","tag-color","tag-developing","tag-film","tag-machines","tag-negatives","tag-processing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}