The Hardest Way to Make a GIF Using 35mm Film and a Lomo ActionSampler

The Hardest Way to Make a GIF Using 35mm Film and a Lomo ActionSampler

I decided to create a GIF the hardest way possible by shooting 35mm film with a vintage Lomo ActionSampler camera. After developing the film at home, I manually scanned each frame using a digital camera and Affinity software. Finally, I used imagemagick to align the frames and add tweening for smoother motion, resulting in a unique analog-to-digital animation.

It's pointless, but some pointless things are just fun to do.
  1. ticulatedspline

    > Using imagemagick on the command line I was able to combine the images into a GIF.

    man what a cop out, I was hoping they would use a text editor to build the gif. that would be way harder.

  2. dominicq

    "Acquire photons" was funny

  3. virgil_disgr4ce

    This reminds me in the best way of Lynch's Lumiere competition entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-OKH2ow4o

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