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No More Wating For Prints – The Lomo’Instant Brings The Lomo Fun to NOW

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If you are a fan of analog film, but hated the wait between shooting and developing, this new camera from Lomograpy will make you very, very happy.

The Lomo’Instant  is a hybrid between the classic Lomo analog vibe and Fujifilm Instax Mini Film. The camera supports interchangeable lenses (or attachments): Wide Angle (82°), Fisheye (170°) & Portrait (64°).

Here is the interesting bit, While Lomography has both the sales channels and (I would guess) the funds to make this camera alone, they are turning to Kickstarter to back this project. A camera will set you back $69 (if you are an early bird) and a full set is $160. – it is over 30% funding from its $100,000 in just about 2 hours.
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3 ways Of Using 35mm Film in 120 Bodies

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with the slow decay of film it is getting harder and harder to find film to use on old (or new) cameras that use 120 film. Even you do find 120 film (hint Amazon, eBay) it is not trivial to develop (not to mention expensive). But what if you have a Diana or a treasured Mamiya that you want to use? You can still use them with 35mm film if you can manage to load the film into the spool in a way that you can wind it after each shot.

The photos you take will not be restricted to the 35mm frame that you are accustomed to, but go all over the sprockets. It’s a pretty cool effect if you ask me.

Here are three ways with ranging budgets, innovation levels and description to use 35mm film on 120 cameras:[Read More…]

Photographer finds Developed Kodak Super XX Roll of an Unknown Man’s Life Post-WW2

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If you read my last post, I was emphasizing heavily on how important photography is to our time today; it’s become a way for us to have an actual window to our past that our world hasn’t ever had before in its existence. I wrote much of it thinking about how often it goes over our heads that we have the ability to discover and share moments like that at such a fast pace today.

A photographer named Derek Wong felt the same way. Recently, he came across a roll of developed Kodak Super XX film at an antique store and decided to pick it up. He wrote about why he chose to buy it, telling us that he can now “show the world those moments in history” that were merely fading into irrelevancy sitting in the shop.

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DIYP Reviews The Lomokino Analog Movie Maker

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What da!?

Here is the short answer (AKA straight to the point)

The LomoKino is a 35mm truly analogue movie camera. Using a normal 35mm roll of film (36 exp.), the LomoKino can shoot around 144 frames or 25 sec. of beautifully analogue cinematic masterpieces (well, the masterpiece part is kinda up to you and your creativity).[Read More…]

Restoring and Digitizing Old Photos Using a Smartphone

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I was going through some old photos of my family overseas. My dad’s kept them in a hard brown briefcase since before I was born, and we decided to find a way for them to be able to be cherished more freely. I wanted to share a few tips I noted down along the way as I was restoring those photos. And you don’t need an elaborate setup. Grab your phones, guys.

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OLDSCHOOL: Hacking DX Film Annotations

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Back in the days, when we were still capturing images on sheets of plastic, ISO (also known as ASA) was not a button on the back of a camera. It was a chemical property of the film. Some cameras could read the encoding on the film can and set the ISO accordingly. But sometimes you wanted to get more out of a film – to set it to a higher (or lower) ISO. This process is called pushing/puling the film, and if the camera you had could only do auto ISO decoding, you had to hack the film.

Even today, if you still roll your own film, you may find this technique useful. We present – The Full Guide To Hacking DX Film Annotations

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How to Develop Film With Lego Mindstorms

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Over the years we shared quite a few interesting ways to develop analog film. Coffee, Red Wine and Tylenol being some of the more uncommon developers, but we never actually took the time to show any of the mechanics of the development process tweaked.

Dutch photographer Jan van den Broek shared “an idea” that I think has the potential to inspire many folks who still love to develop their own film. He used Lego Mindstorms to create a semi-automatic developing machine.[Read More…]

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