Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 12310 1433

This was an attempt to see what a cheap digital camera and a plastic loupe would do in copying a negative. The negative was a not-bad shot in a Nikon APS slr a couple of years ago. It had limitations to begin with -- it was on expired FNAC film, a film notorious for its lack of clarity. Nonetheless, this image wasn't bad in the original. I taped the negative (still in its plastic PrintFile sleeve) to a sheet of white paper which I taped to a north-facing window. The north window was chosen to avoid the sunlight that is streaming in the south-facing ones this morning. The texture in the image is largely the fibre patterning in the paper but probably has something to do with the plastic sleeve, too. I set the Olympus Camedia C3020 to its flower icon, meaning it was looking for close focus, and I simply held my little Agfa plastic loupe (8x) on the front of the camera's lens. With the flash turned off, I took this picture. Done that way I could hold the camera fairly steady for its 1/20 second exposure. I did very little in adjustment -- in Paint Shop Pro, I inverted the image colours and then adjusted the colour curves a little bit. Adjusting the loupe-to-lens distance (to gve bigger coverage of the negative), using a better negative to begin with, and using a less fibrous paper backing (or a proper light table) would all improve this result, if by "improvement" you mean making the image look more like something you'd taken originally in the same digital camera. But I like the introduction of shape distortion (pin-cushion distortion?), the textural quality, and the circular image.