A really really cheap way to make transparent color mini-photos (or:The ghetto film recorder.)
			Thought #1:The Special Moments camera that they sell at Dollar Tree takes quite acceptable quality pictures off of a 19 inch (viewable image size) TV set. Thought #2:Negative film is quite cheap at Dollar Tree (you guessed it, a whole dollar a roll) Thought #3:I just happen to have a photo printer (Sony DPP-EX5) that can display photos off a Memory Stick onto a TV screen. Thought #4:Many image programs (I use Paint Shop Pro 9) can invert the colors of a JPEG image and add the orange tint to give it negative colors. Thought #5:Two negatives make a positive. Thought #6:Wal*Mart has the "Develop Only" service which will develop your film without prints for $1.76. The Conclusion: If you have a computer, a photo display system that's reasonably bright (like a CRT monitor, or a post-2004 LCD monitor) and it's big enough so that you can stand far enough from it for it to focus and still get the whole picture,  you can use this as a film recorder. Take the pictures and reverse the colors and use the RGB color adjust to make the image on the screen look like the colors of a photographic negative, save it onto a Memory Stick, use the photo printer to display them on a larger, brighter screen (a TV), and shoot the funny-colored pictures with the $1 camera. On a 19 inch TV you can see the scan lines on the negatives if your eyes are good enough. If you happen to have a 19 inch LCD (they don't lie about the screen size on those) that's quite bright (as in movie theatre bright) you can shoot that with the Special Moments camera and get very high resolution (1280x1024 gives you 1.3 megapixels). Once you shot a whole roll, you can wait for a ride to Wal*Mart and ask them to do a Develop Only on that very roll. {hint:If you're a photographer like me, you'd write with a permanent marker on the film cartridge "DEVELOP ONLY NO PRINTS" so you don't pay $12+ on 2 sets of malcolored photographs and a CD-ROM of files you already have.(!)Two shot rolls of film of the same brand look alike, even though the pictures on them may be very different.}
				This is what St. Patrick looks like on Negative Film. It looks about twice as clear as this picture as I had to use a magnifying glass in front of my digital camera lens. This is actual negative film and the photo you see on this web site was not edited other than resizing.
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