No luck finding a polaroid camera? No retro apps on your 4s? No problem!!

Now you can be extra cool with the easy-to-make-do-it-yourself Hipster-O-Matic™!!

No seriously.. I’ve had these analog film rolls laying around for a few years. And now I finally had these developed, not knowing what was on them. But when I got the film negatives back, I wanted them things digitalized.

Good film scanners are expensive. Not an option for the ocasional analog shooter that I am. Another option was to get them scanned by the store where I got these developed. But since I’m allergic to the .jpg format, I had to find a more difficult way!

After seeing Kai screw around with his Starbucks cups (which I didnt like – since daylight or flash-light is much better than iMac-light), I got creative..

So after a lot of duct tape, cardboard and white paper, I started capturing the almost 1:1 macro’s. The tricky part is to get a decent exposure and correct focus distance.

If I had used a 50mm lens (instead of the 90mm), I would have gotten a more-than-one-time magnification. This would have been a problem since my sensor is exactly as large as the 35mm film. The 90mm lens in combination with the extention tubes, gives a slightly lesser magnification. I think it’s around 0.90x. So I had a few mm’s around the edges to play with.

This is what the shot looks like on the cam.

After some color corrections these are the results that I got.. I’m no film expert, but you can easily tell by the image quality that the color film was expired (or just badly stored).

And a few BW’s..

and crop

Hope you guys enjoyed! I did