A brief comment on Film

Film is an interesting thing.

I think it depends on manufacturer, but some of it dries very flat, some of it curls right back up, even tries to curl with a weight at the bottom; some of it twists up into a spiral.

This particular roll of Lomography Color 100 bowed a bit and curled a bit: so much so that I had to ‘scan’ the film upside down: it was a big pain. Interesting, because it was the third such roll I developed, and the only one to behave in this unruly fashion. Continue reading “A brief comment on Film”

Scan-O-Matic 7000 mk II

I made a few errors with the first production version (mk-1) of the scanner bed:

  • wrinkled tape around the scanning tube caused the negative carrier to skip and occasionally hang up
  • the scanning bed was shorter than the negative carrier
  • the single security flap was insufficient to keep the negative carrier on the scanner bed and it would sometimes slide out during scanning

So I rebuilt it. Continue reading “Scan-O-Matic 7000 mk II”

One Roll, Two Years (at least)

Most of the time, I have multiple little personal projects going on, all with various levels of importance both to me and in relation to each other. I don’t find this an unusual character trait: it seems as if others operate similarly.

In the sphere of Photography-related projects, I got interested in film shortly after I acquired my the D7000. The iPhone 4-induced photography obsession interest had family sending all manner of cameras my way, one of which was the cute-little Ricoh 35-ZF. I put a roll of film in it and started shooting around a bit. Continue reading “One Roll, Two Years (at least)”