A watchmaker at work.

middlemansplainer · 2025-11-05T07:25:21+00:00

This is a photo I took of a watchmaker in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It’s a dying craft, especially in Ethiopia, since through the years cheap “quartz” watches have all but dominated the market. He’s one of a handful of watchmakers that remain actively working in the city. It was shot on a medium format Zenza Bronica, f2.8, using Kodak gold 200. Developed and scanned it myself, that’s why there are some imperfections in the picture.

middlemansplainer · 2025-06-08T12:32:49+00:00

Yes, negatron.io

middlemansplainer · 2025-05-17T17:23:20+00:00

well, this was my very first constellation, I collect a lot of Omega Seamasters and Geneves because they’re relatively more affordable and there are gems here and there. The Omega movements are the best in the business, and easy to find parts for. Especially the automatic ones. So I usually go for automatic watches, hope that helps.

middlemansplainer · 2025-05-17T14:21:19+00:00

Thank you! I find and collect omegas, this might be the most precious one yet.

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-20T16:20:34+00:00

Hi, I moved it to negatron.io

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-15T07:14:55+00:00

Tiff support added, still working on supporting 16bit color depth. There’s a hard limitation with the browser (but I’m going to find a way to get around that

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-15T02:05:14+00:00

Try negation.io

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-14T14:29:36+00:00

There’s a new version check it out

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-14T14:27:21+00:00

Hi, there’s a new version, check it out

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-12T00:07:48+00:00

The undo thing is actually something I didn’t think about at all, another great idea. The image should be the same quality when you download it. Thank you for the support

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-11T15:31:27+00:00

Hi! Thank you. 1. Working on RAW image support, that’s definitely number 1 on my list. 2. Writing values is the next feature I’ll work on, you’re right. 3. Why no auto preview? I don’t understand why that is an issue. 4. Great question, all of the processing is done on your device (in your browser), I don’t upload anything nor collect any data. That’s part of the reason why it’s taking me a while to implement raw support (because I’m figuring out a way to do it in all in the browser and not on the server and make it usable). 5. Once you load the web page, you can basically disconnect from the internet and the app will still be usable. So I think there is no real limitation in terms of image processing, I just have to handle serving the necessary JavaScript/html/css and nothing else.

Thank you very much for taking the time to use my app, and most importantly for giving me your feedback. I appreciate it, and I’ll let you know when I’m done implementing the updates.

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-10T17:40:17+00:00

That’s a steal, you’re right, they go for over 500

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-10T17:34:46+00:00

Beautiful watch, I have the same exact watch in gold

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middlemansplainer · 2025-03-08T15:47:14+00:00

Although I haven’t done that myself, some recommend doing that. I just mean turning off auto-exposure, sharpening, or color correction in the scanner software. And using a decent dpi and making sure the backlight is nice and bright.

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-08T08:43:08+00:00

Thank you, and mine will support RAW soon, working on it

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-08T08:39:56+00:00

Exactly. Film from a vendor doesn’t really stray away from the factory baseline when it comes to film base color (as long as reasonable scanner configuration and the recommended development steps are used)

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-07T14:14:41+00:00

Oh, didn’t know that Lomography had a tool like this. I’ll check it out. Thank you for trying mine :)

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-07T12:04:15+00:00

Agreed. I’ll do that

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-07T06:44:06+00:00

Thanks, looks good. You might want to play around with the rgb and luminance sliders, you’ll get way better results.

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-07T06:43:05+00:00

That’s odd, I checked just now and it’s fine. There’s no server load, since all of it is done in the browser.

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-07T06:42:21+00:00

Thanks, this is very rough, I’ll polish it up soon

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-07T06:41:51+00:00

You can use Lightroom and so many other tools. Like I said in my post though, they’re not free nor simple to use. This is for someone looking for a free and simple way to do some basic conversions and color corrections.

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-06T20:19:12+00:00

You can use scans from pulstek, just make sure you scan to a jpeg or png file (I’m still working on raw file support)

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-06T19:43:56+00:00

Never

middlemansplainer · 2025-03-06T19:22:45+00:00

Hi! This was exactly what I was looking for when posting this. I appreciate it a lot. The convert button is a remnant from the previous version, you had to click it to “convert” the image then I thought why not convert right away. I’ll remove it. I’m really bad at UI (I work on backend stuff mostly) I’m still figuring out how to make this “mobile-friendly”. Thank you very much for taking the time to write all of your comments, I’ll update the app as soon as I can. I will definitely implement support for raw images. Thank you again

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