Chemistry

Dev.a supports all development processes currently used in stills photography, we cover both black and white and color and both negatives and positives.

With 6 different chemical tanks at your disposal and 100 programs, even the most demanding processes can be supported. If you’ve always been using a 6-baths E6 kit to develop your precious slides, don’t worry, our machine is here to help.

After the process has ended, chemistry is recovered using the taps on the front of the machine, alternatively, in case of one-shot chemistry, everything can be automatically discarded directly after processing.

All commercially available chemistry can be used, we recommend the made for rotary processing colour chemistry by BelliniFoto and Jobo, each ready as an off the shelf and great value solution using pre-prepared programs so you will be immediately ready to go!

Temperature Control

Maintaining, precise and effective temperature control is extremely important in colour processes such as C41 and E6 but also in general which helps to obtain consistent and reproducible results in any process.

The chemistry tanks and film tanks are fully immersed in a recirculating water bath that heats and tempers both film and chemistry to the desired temperature, which is then consistenytly maintained dev.a throughout the process.

The lastest evolution of dev.a also has much more efficient circulation and heating solutions within the water bath and now warms up faster than ever but maintaining a much more even temperature throughout development…the new machines are fantastic!

The water bath can be filled and managed in two ways:

• Automatically: if the machine is connected to a pressurized water source, such as a sink faucet
  
  
• Manually: by pouring the water into the bath from a container

At the end of the working day…It’s a green machine too: Efficiently managing water to prevent wastage. Flushing between process stages using only what is required and then cleansing itself using the water from the tempering bath when finished.

Film Tanks

To make life easy, Dev.a tanks are engineered to accept the most readily available reels by Paterson/AP and Jobo.

For 110/16mm, 35mm or 120 rolls, tanks are compatible with Jobo series 1500 reels or with Paterson/AP reels. For large format processing we custom reels are available.

A trio of three different tank sizes are offered in order to suit your processing needs. The following table lists film capacity and required chemistry for each tank

Naturally, the variety of film format combinations in same tank are pretty diverse…from the 16mm Jobo to the dev.a 10×8 & 5×4 units…which are also now available

User Interface

This is the best bit…the user interface is smiply brilliant!!

Controlled using it’s unique new software, an intuitive user interface via the large 7″ touch screen, operating dev.a is as easy as using an app on your phone, perhaps even easier in fact!

Several common processed are pre-installed, those like all 100 programs are fully customisable. Even if some processes are standard it’s often desirable to be able to tweak them to suit your own needs or preferences which makes this machine just about the most versatile film processor in todays market.

dev.a makes no interruption to any other work needing doing in your darkroom. All illumination for the machine, the display and the status led can be turned completely off without shutting the machine down, dev.a will just carry on processing film in the background without risk of any light contamination whatsoever.