Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography
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Re: Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography
#2Pretty cool idea but unless you knock the focus off on the enlarger, it's going to look like shit. If you consider photo paper to be around 300dpi then your 400x480 cheap ass smartphone display is going to be pretty obvious.
So blurry or pixelated. Your choice :)
N.B this might be desirable from an artistic point of view though.
Re: Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography
#3Pretty cool idea but unless you knock the focus off on the enlarger, it's going to look like shit. If you consider photo paper to be around 300dpi then your 400x480 cheap ass smartphone display is going to be pretty obvious. So blurry or pixelated. Your choice :) N.B this might be desirable from an artistic point of view though.
Is it really that bad? Web designers have been taking pictures of their screens for years. You still have the original 'negative' if you need the extra image quality.
Edit: There should really be a couple sample images on the project page.
Re: Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography
#4Pretty cool idea but unless you knock the focus off on the enlarger, it's going to look like shit. If you consider photo paper to be around 300dpi then your 400x480 cheap ass smartphone display is going to be pretty obvious. So blurry or pixelated. Your choice :) N.B this might be desirable from an artistic point of view though.
The iPhone 4S (so, the one in all the demo photos) has a screen resolution of 640×960 at 326 ppi, and the Enfojer uses plastic "toy camera" lenses similar to the ones in Lomography cameras, so the results are always going to be slightly blurred.
Re: Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography
#5because your time is worth less than your money.
we are fully descended into the first level of mediocrity.
I think I must be getting time-trolled. People come up with ideas to deliver me 5 minutes of hate on a Monday morning.
Let's put together cheap things to waste massive amounts of time in the pursuit of crap, disposable techno-folk-art. Thank goodness the bombing starts right after football kicks into high gear.
Re: Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography
#6because your time is worth less than your money. we are fully descended into the first level of mediocrity. I think I must be getting time-trolled. People come up with ideas to deliver me 5 minutes of hate on a Monday morning. Let's put together cheap things to waste massive amounts of time in the pursuit of crap, disposable techno-folk-art. Thank goodness the bombing starts right after football kicks into high gear.
"Strange how much human progress & accomplishment comes from contemplation of the irrelevant." - Scott Kim
Re: Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography
#7The next logical step is to create a mount for the back of a holga to replace the film plane with a smartphone camera. Or, to create a holga look-alike that interfaces with a smartphone's camera.
Re: Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography
#8That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen ... speaking as someone who used to spend hours and hours as a kid in the 1980s in our garage, making prints in our home-made darkroom.
If one is already going to go to the trouble of printing on photographic paper in a darkroom, then why not just go out and get a real enlarger, a real film camera and use real negative film? The quality will be so much better. Also you can buy professional film cameras that used to cost thousands of dollars for peanuts these days. You can send your film out to be developed if you don't want to do that step yourself, e.g indiefilmlab.com or ilfordlab-us.com.
Slightly off topic but I hate to see another lower-quality digital "reinvention" of a highly developed, high quality analog thing again (think audio).
Re: Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography
#9I used to own a B&W enlarger and made prints from my own negatives. I remember the bulb in the enlarger having significantly more power (photons emitted/sec) than a smart phone display has.
I wonder by how much this will increase exposure times, and if it works at all...
Re: Analog photography is dead. Long live analog photography
#10That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen ... speaking as someone who used to spend hours and hours as a kid in the 1980s in our garage, making prints in our home-made darkroom. If one is already going to go to the trouble of printing on photographic paper in a darkroom, then why not just go out and get a real enlarger, a real film camera and use real negative film? The quality will be so much better. Also y…
What are you referring to with audio there? The current trend for colour vinyl pressings of music made on laptops?