Lomography smartphone scanner

darkosaric · Mar 29, 2020

Right now it is on sale, only 39 euros, so I got myself one.
https://shop.lomography.com/en/smartphone-scanner

I will use it primarily when I am not home, traveling. It is really easy to use, and in comparing to other film scanners that I have - here you can scan and see full frame, and also sprockets as well if you are in to this kind of thing. Usually other scanners mask is cutting 10-15% of the negative, I don't like that.
Here are 2 examples - no editing except invert colors and resize in Gimp. Film used is expired Polypan F (that I used to test to see how bad is my fogged DR Summicron)

mohmad khatab · Mar 29, 2020

Regarding Gimp, I think it is an application that is always being wronged.
- With this application, there are 4 options that can be used all or some of them before or after the reflection step.
There is also a small application accompanying the application (Gimp) that you must use first to configure the image and confuse the option to set the white balance (Auto) and then go with the image to (Gimp) and do approximately 4 steps before the last step, which is the reflection of the shot.

darkosaric · Mar 29, 2020

You can actually invert images much faster in Linux. You go in folder where your jpg's are and execute this command:

find *jpg -exec convert {} -channel RGB -negate {} \;

I use negative scan only for review, and then I print selected frames in the darkroom - and scan prints for my digital presentation.

Ariston · Mar 29, 2020

I could not fimd the app for this thing on android or my iphone. How am I missing it?

darkosaric · Mar 29, 2020

There is no app. You just use the camera, and that is that. You revert and edit picture in picture editor either on phone or on PC. You can use some app if you want, for example Kodak scanner app - it is automatically inverting picture, and adjusting for color or B&W film.

EDIT: I see they wrote that there is some special app - but after I followed the link that was in the paper that came with the scanner - nothing was there.

Ariston · Mar 29, 2020

darkosaric said:
There is no app. You just use the camera, and that is that. You revert and edit picture in picture editor either on phone or on PC. You can use some app if you want, for example Kodak scanner app - it is automatically inverting picture, and adjusting for color or B&W film.

EDIT: I see they wrote that there is some special app - but after I followed the link that was in the paper that came with the scanner - nothing was there.

Thanks for the info. I was wondering. Maybe that is the reason for the discount. I would be interested if this was a "plug and play" solution for when I am away from my computer and scanner. Maybe there is another app, as you say...

darkosaric · Mar 30, 2020

What I do is - I make all scans as a simple photo with smartphone camera, upload all in the cloud, download from cloud to PC, convert all in positive image and done. Eventually I will do the cropping and resizing later. So no app is needed, but as I said - I use it only to proof and see results, not for presentation in digital form on web pages.

Donald Qualls · Apr 13, 2020

A macro attachment for your smart phone (I've got one that was about $4 at Big Lots, also has wide angle and tele, but I have to take the phone out of the Otter Box to use them) might allow using a larger fraction of its sensor. Question with smart phones, however, is how much of the claimed megapixel count is due to interpolation vs. actual sensor resolution?

ChristopherCoy · Apr 13, 2020

of course it's out of stock now....

Ko.Fe. · Apr 13, 2020

ChristopherCoy said:
of course it's out of stock now....

Same, if not "better" https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1495785-REG/kodak_rodmfs50_mobile_film_scanner.html/overview

Donald Qualls · Apr 15, 2020

Or on YouTube:
Probably cost you under $5 plus your time to build...

darkosaric · Apr 17, 2020

Question to you guys: do you know some app where you can shoot in negative (invert) colors, and you can shoot many pictures in a row? All apps that I have found - you take one photo, and then you are thrown in the gallery or in photo editor, or in "share amazon" page, really frustrating. Ideally I would like to shoot in inverted mode, and cropped mode (I crop which part of the photo app should make), all 36 exposures in a row, so that I am done fast.

Donald Qualls · Apr 17, 2020

I just checked the two I have installed (Android): Helmut drops me into a simplified editor, but there's a "save" at the top; presumably, this will let me save the unedited image (pre-inverted, I think). Getting the image from the phone's storage to a computer is likely to be the snag, depending on your phone (my Pixel doesn't have a Micro SD slot, all storage is internal, though I can plug in a standard thumb drive with the OTG adapter that came with the phone).

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