I have been interested in photography since I was a kid. My first camera took 127 roll film and came from the toy section of a small drugstore in Cedar City, Utah. I remember buying Kodak Tri-Chem Packs and processing rolls of film in our laundry room turned darkroom. My brother and I used the soup bowl (or see-saw method) we found in our out of date encyclopedia. It got easier to process the rolls, when I got the GAF Photo Lab darkroom kit, for my birthday, which included the much easier to use developing tank.
One of the things you don’t get with digital photography is the smells. The smell of a fresh roll of film and the possibilities it would bring. Also the smell of the chemicals in the Tr-Chem Pack, once mixed with water, would bring excitement at the images to come. But digital does have the advantage of cost and immediacy.
After shooting video with a GH2, of course it is easy to download the moving images and cut/paste as desired. But digital video has both the advantage and disadvantage of being able to shoot, and store or delete without cost other then time and storage space. It works easy enough but looses some of the magic in the process.
Which brings me to the genesis of this project. I recently picked up a nice Bell & Howell Filmo 16mm movie camera in a local 2nd hand store and it started me looking into using film again. The cost of film is quite high and processing movie film is not cheap either. One option I saw, while searching e-bay, was microfilm, which was relatively cheap. But the issue with using it would be no perforations or sprocket holes and no easy way to add them. So the idea occurred to me to use microfilm as is and thus the odyssey begins . . .