Midtone Origins.

My name is Andrew Burns, rocket propulsion engineer and founder of Midtone Machines. I first re-discovered analogue photography while on holiday in Europe after buying a Minolta SRT100 to fix up at a second-hand market. After diving in head-first and hand processing B&W, colour negative and slide film at home I decided to turn my technical skills and experience towards solving problems faced by the analogue photography world, and to ensuring that film as a medium would remain available and accessible for years to come. After discussions with other film enthusiasts and photographic lab owners the Chromabox-4 fully automatic film processing machine was born.

Midtone Machines was founded in 2019, located in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. The Chromabox-4 is only the first of many product ideas I have in mind, so keep an eye out for what’s to come.