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This section provides a brief overview of the innovative features of our patent approved machine, which we will fully explain in details in our upcoming white paper to be released with the launch of our Kickstarter campaign. All concepts and techs listed on this site are protected by PCT patent pending.
A DarkLab Machine unit has a revolutionary optic system that project images always on focus, a new of its kind dynamic digital plate and an enchanted custom light module. Everything works together paired with a processing unit to ensure the highest quality image production possible while correcting errors and adapting the projection to fit your specifications.
Everything is digital, modern photography evolved so quickly that anyone has a camera in their pocket with the ability to capture and modify images in an accurate yet portable format storing them as data
These advancements along with the rise of internet and social media culture and the lost of physical development in favor of digital archives made photos more of a daily phenomenon within everyone’s reach than a way to keep a memory in time.
Despite we live in a digital world we still make art and print the image we truly care, but even the best inkjet or laser printer will always print a copy of the digital piece you worked on, our machine wants to solve this problem by modernizing the traditional photo development techniques and recovering the irreplaceable feeling provided by a chemical development, enabling digital images to have a tangible counterpart.
Shot on fuji xt-20 35mm
Developed on Illford Cooltone IV Pearl
Digital Photography give us full control on every pixel of what we capture, allowing non destructive modifications and post production on our selected images. We want to keep this control over the image but we aim to introduce the element of chaos and unpredictability, once exclusive to traditional photography, into digital prints.
We want our machine to be as user-friendly as possible, allowing anyone, even without traditional development experience or knowledge, to easily embark on their own journey creating stunning and unique photographic prints. Take images on your device of choice and connect it to our Dark Lab, our system is designed to have a plug-and-play interface and an app environment.
Once you connect with our system and chose the image you want to work with a negative format of your file is automatically deployed on both the workspace and the interface panel, ready for modification and projection. CPU in our machine automatically corrects errors based on input distance and other parameters, ensuring that every image is always displayed accurately.
Allowing for both cable and wireless connections from your devices makes easy to connect your camera, smartphone, tablet, or even a computer to our machine, adding the option to store local data or run proprietary and third party applications opening up to future app developments and integrations.
This versatile and innovative solution addresses to a wide range of users and applications, offering unparalleled control over image projection and customization. With its revolutionary systems, dynamic movements, software, and precise lighting customization, it ensures the highest level of quality and fidelity, blending the advantages of a digital workflow with the artistic chaos of traditional development.
This portable lab is meant to serve as a convenient substitute for the traditional projection process in the darkroom, allowing users to effortlessly project images onto emulsified surfaces without the need to worry about technicality but we do not want our machine to be limited to photographic purposes and we encourage to push Its versatility to the development of complex designs, vectors and texts as well on any emulsifiable surface of any dimension.
With its precise reproduction of file inputs, the smooth screen pattern and its total customizability our machine ensures that designs and artwork retain their original integrity and accuracy, resulting in stunning visual representations. Moreover, when it comes to textual development, the machine’s ability to faithfully capture and transfer text onto paper guarantees the preservation of fonts, formatting, and overall aesthetics opening up worlds of possibilities for designers and digital artists.
Whether you want to develop intricate patterns, typography, or detailed graphics, we ensures precise rendering and stunning reproduction of even the most intricate elements replacing print noise and pattern with a smooth, almost invisible yet recognizable screen pattern that adds a unique touch to the final print.
Embracing the ability to fuse tradition with digital technology is a central theme throughout the project. That’s why we have meticulously created our chassis to be fully modular enabling the integration of every section with adaptors to enable the switch for old negative trays as well as standard projection lenses.
An other remarkable advancement found within the modular chassis is its standout feature grants users the unprecedented ability to orient their projection beam in any direction to suit any specific needs and preferences.
With these features and designs we aim to provide the freedom to adapt any space in darkroom environment with the possibility of developing any digital image on various techniques and lots of unusual pretreated surfaces like wood or walls, take a look at our State Of The Art page and discover more about the technologies behind our game changing patent.
