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MAYA DARKROOM TIMER

MAYA is an enlarger timer that is designed help you create beautiful prints in your darkroom by offering you all the functionality you’ll probably ever need. It can also help you develop your film by timing your development, fixing and other processes and with the modular interface, it might even one day develop your film and slow cook your food for you!

features

f stop

Edit your exposure time in F-Stops (in 0.1 EV steps) as well as seconds (in 0.1″ increments).

test strıp mode

Use the test strip mode to create F-Stop based test strips to quickly determine your base time.

Simply choose the step that gave you the best result!

dodge burn

Add dodge and burn actions to your workflow in F-Stops without going through complicated calculations, even if you change your base exposure.

splıt grade

Use A and B channels to easily create split grade prints.

You can also use test strip, dodge and burn tools in split grade mode!

smart resıze

Enter current and target dimensions of your subject or your paper to calculate the new base time.

All your dodge/burn times will be recalculated as well!

memory channels

Store up to 6 recipes, each with two channels for your favourite prints…

…or use them to time your develop and fixer times!

Multiple power outlets

Control your room light, safe light, a second enlarger…

…or even control your room light as an enlarger to create contact prints!

fılm developer mode

Store and recall times for favourite film and developers and use MAYA as a timer while developing your film.

…and many more

Unlike conventional darkroom timers, MAYA is designed around darkroom techniques in order to simplify your workflow and let you take care of the final print without diving deep into calculations.

Simply start your session by using the highly customizable Test Strip Tool to create F-Stop based test strips and choose the step you like the best.

Make a test print and start thinking about where you want to dodge and burn and by how many stops. Add each action to MAYA using the Dodge and Burn Tools, based in F-Stops and simple location reminders.

MAYA will take care of everything and guide you along the way.

We’ve started working on the project a few seconds after our old darkroom timer broke down. Realizing all the possible replacements were either lacking almost everything we’d like to have in a timer or having absolutely horrible interfaces with requiring button push combinations and no clear display to communicate with you, we took the matters into our own hands and started building a better product.

Even though we’ve started designing MAYA for our own use in the first place, getting it out there for the whole analog community was always something we had in mind. We wanted to give something capable to well seasoned master printers so that their prints will be even easier to make and at the same time, we always wanted to give a warm welcome to the newcomers to the world of darkroom printing.

For those who are on a budget or simply dislike seeing lots of lights in their faces, we knew we had to create a simpler alternative that would also be cheaper. However, all the core functionality had to be there. So maybe for the first time ever, we are democratising the F-Stop adjustments, test strip modes and almost all the other features that the most expensive timers have. That’s right, our cheaper MAYA White Edition hardly is an entry model. Where it differs from the Black Edition is the interface, extension capability and the choice of materials.