scanning negatives with Lomography kit and smart phone
Toronto. The folks at Lomography are best known for their odd ball films and inexpensive cameras and lenses. In this digital era, the film aficionados are in a minority. Those of us with negatives galore have discovered the virtues of digitizing the frames and using key words etc. in the resulting files as exif, etc. data. This discipline makes searches simple (if relevant key words were used).
We progressed from specialized scanners, to general scanners, to office machines that united printers, scanners and fax functions, to copy stands and digital cameras, to copy stands and smart phones. Software took off with means to store, retrieve, and ‘develop’ i.e. edit digitized photos.
Now Lomography has joined forces with a copy stand and light source to use either a digital camera or a smart phone to ‘scan’ negatives (those taken on Lomography films and others as well). Check out the details at this web site. Prices shown are C$.
Note. The title of this post is a riff on the line ‘dialling for dollars’ in the song sung by the late Janis Joplin called “Mercedes Benz”. Joplin’s songs may be an acquired taste but this one like ‘Me and Bobby McGee‘ is worth a listen!
