(Apologies if this seems to veer off into a topic more suited for chat...) Oleg - you're probably aware of the the whole lomography movement (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomography) based on this camera. However, it has spawned an aesthetic beyond the camera itself that encompasses a casual, snapshot-based style of picture taking. In fact, there's even a tutorial on turning regular (digital) photos into "lomos": http://www.flickr.com/groups/technique/discuss/12082/ .
In any case, as a big fan of digital photography (see my flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/photonatic/ which has some J-generated graphs snuck in), I would concur with Cliff's notion that a new camera would make a lot of sense for projects like this. An interesting topic touched on briefly here is one that Bjorn brought up a while ago: how do you identify the "same" object (or sub-picture) within different pictures? This would help with the alignment problem we've just mentioned. Also, there's a couple of applications for this solution to two different types of high-resolution photos: one where you stitch together multiple photos to get a large, highly-detailed one (see http://www.tawbaware.com/maxlyons/) and another where you combine two or more photos of same scene taken with different exposure settings - high dynamic range - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging. A good digital photography FAQ is here: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~parr/photography/faq.html . On 4/27/07, Oleg Kobchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The frames are perfectly the same size. It's just that the bordering frames were chopped off, which could happen at a photo store. So you might be better off scanning the original film. Anyway, of you apply correct padding to compensate for the chop-off, the splitting is simply even cut operation. However, if you superimpose the frames you see camera movement against still background. So probably a better solution is a mouse-driven tool to align the frames. But the original split can still be done evenly with padding. LOMO stands for Leningrad Optical-Mechanical Organization. Smena 8M was my first camera when I was 8 or 9. You had to mix the chemicals and develop your own prints in black and white. I also owned Agat 18 which took split frames: 72 off of 36 frame film.
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