How to Make Lo-Fi Photographs with 35 mm Films

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Take your lo-fi photography skills up a notch with this ActionSampler shooting tip from Lomographer yerzmyey.


This time, I'd like to write about another way of making lo-fi photographs.

Well, the 110 or pocket microfilm is obviously the best way, but it's not that easy to buy 110 films (Also, not every country has its own Lomography Gallery or Embassy store). Although developing is not a problem at all, what's even harder is finding a photo-lab that will scan the developed 110 film, sadly.

Photo by Yerz. Camera: ActionSampler. Location: Tuchola Pinewoods. Time: April 2017

I was wondering then, what the solution might be, for a lo-fi photographer. And you know what is it? The 1/4 of the standard 135 film's frame, namely the Lomography ActionSampler. Yes, I know what you might say: It's a good touristic / fun camera but not necessarily associated with the art of lo-fi photography. Well, it may be true but in my opinion the machine is a very good tool for our purposes, too! Its four lenses give you four tiny and slightly different lo-fi photos in one 135 frame.

Photo by Yerz. Camera: ActionSampler. Location: Tuchola Pinewoods. Time: April 2017

Not only you get a very small format (1/4 of the 135 looks like a photo from 110/pocket film), but also you'll have 36 shots instead of 24. Moreover, you can choose the best among the four variations of every photo you take.

We've got the lo-fi shot then which is easy to scan as photo labs would just should treat is as the regular 135 film and can still the film format everywhere. The only thing you have to do is to "crop out" the best variation from the ActionSampler's quadruple shot. Nice, easy, and still lo-fi! You have to remember though to scan at better resolution than normally, so the small lo-fi shots will not be pixelated.

Photo by Yerz. Camera: ActionSampler. Location: Tuchola Pinewoods. Time: April 2017

We can use 'stronger' films to obtain clearer shot (Lomography Color Negative 400 ISO 35 mm film could be a good choice). On the other hand, we might take a risk and make some additional lo-fi experiments using the LomoChrome Purple Film, ADOX Color Implosion 100 ISO, Lomography XPro 200, or Lomography Redscale XR 50-200. The choice is yours and the possibilities are wide and numerous!

Also, there are several possible cameras that you can use. For instance, I used the ActionSampler Clear but it might be any ActionSamplers model. It can obviously be a Lomography SuperSampler or even the LomoKino if you just take one shot at the time, instead of making a movie with it. It also uses a standard 135 film and give interesting lo-fi and wide-screen picture with hundreds of shots instead of only 36).

Photo by Yerz. Camera: ActionSampler. Location: Tuchola Pinewoods. Time: April 2017

The idea works just fine and I tested it in practice. The shots from ActionSampler are cool and resemble the well-known 110/pocket film's feeling, especially if you'd additionally experiment with various films.

PS: In my humble opinion, the Diana Mini works as well. It uses a standard 135 film, make small shots (can be even twice smaller than the standard ones), which means it can give a good lo-fi artistic feeling and effects. But maybe such a huge film format would be too high-tech for you?

เขียนโดย yerzmyey เมื่อ 2018-08-26 ในหมวด #35-mm #lo-fi-photographs

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  1. yerzmyey
    yerzmyey ·

    Good luck! :-D I'm glad I could help! ;-) ;)

  2. galwachs
    galwachs ·

    Awesome! i just got an action sampler recently so ill definitely use this tips 🔥🔥🔥

  3. yerzmyey
    yerzmyey ·

    =8-D

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