New Lomography Kickstarter Makes Your Smartphone a Mobile Film Scanner

Dave Kendricken — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:30:23 +0000

Though I understand where these things come from, calling something like Lomography “the analog Instagram” is like calling Kodak’s new Super 8 stock “the chemical MiniDV,” or even better, “the new digital from back before digital” — for the sake of modern analog (dear lord I just said that) we’re getting our chicken-and-egg orders mixed up. That said, we’ve seen some pretty interesting blends of the old and the new… and then back to the old again. There was The Impossible Project’s Impossible Instant Lab, which made Polaroids of cell phone stills — which we also called “the Real Instagram,” though again, I understand why. Thanks to (both a hobby and) a company called Lomography, the opposite chicken-egg process is possible — with some help, your smartphone is now also a digital scanner of film negatives. Read: Instant scanning, insta… sharing. (more…)

The Real Instagram: 'Impossible Project' Turns Your iPhone Photos into Polaroids

Joe Marine — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 03:30:22 +0000

Instagram has always felt a little bit like cheating to me, and having come from a film background, I like seeing the real thing as opposed to a clearly inferior iPhone or Android photo with some old-timey effects (though I am extremely impressed by FilmConvert, which aims to do the exact same thing except a lot more accurately with motion content). Impossible Project, who managed to save Polaroid film and is producing it to this day (along with new cameras), is trying to take those iPhone photos and turn them into something real and tangible: a Polaroid instant photo.
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New Lomography Kickstarter Makes Your Smartphone a Mobile Film Scanner

The Real Instagram: 'Impossible Project' Turns Your iPhone Photos into Polaroids