Just Chilling, Under the Bench

This work by Adam M is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License.

I bought a second hand camera from a guy going to america. There was a roll of film in the bottom of the bag. Driven by curiosity I got the film developed. This is one of the resulting images (I'm experimenting in using my camera to digitise film, as getting a roll developed is 5 times more expensive if you get them to scan it for you).

Pentax K-x - 1/2 sec - f/? - ISO 200 - ~83mm

Achieve 300DX shot through the foam-board to which the film was taped.

Used GIMP to invert colours, scale and watermark.

I set the white balance in camera, using the space between images on the film. This meant that when I loaded it into GIMP, all I had to do was invert (film has an orange tinge to it otherwise). If I get my act together and start shooting RAW, this sort of thing would be even easier (and could be done more precisely).
One problem I encountered shooting this way was the grainy appearance of the bubbles in the foam. On this scale they're actually significant. To get around this I could mount the film on something very transparent and rigid (like clean, unscratched glass) and place the diffuser further back. I was also shooting at the closest focus on my kit lens, which does not make full use of the sensor. I'd get a good improvement using a lens that can image the film on the whole sensor, and maybe for really awesome film frames I could rig a set up to take multiple images of the one film, and assemble it for a 24MP image.