- published: 09 Jan 2013
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Microforms are any forms, either films or paper, containing microreproductions of documents for transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform images are commonly reduced to about one twenty-fifth of the original document size. For special purposes, greater optical reductions may be used.
All microform images may be provided as positives or negatives, more often the latter.
Three formats are common: microfilm (reels), aperture cards and microfiche (flat sheets). Microcards, a format no longer produced, were similar to microfiche, but printed on cardboard rather than photographic film.
Using the daguerreotype process, John Benjamin Dancer was one of the first to produce microphotographs, in 1839. He achieved a reduction ratio of 160:1. Dancer perfected his reduction procedures with Frederick Scott Archer’s wet collodion process, developed in 1850–51, but he dismissed his decades-long work on microphotographs as a personal hobby, and did not document his procedures. The idea that microphotography could be no more than a novelty was an opinion shared by the 1858 Dictionary of Photography, which called the process "somewhat trifling and childish."
Desire traps you in my head
I can feel you next to me in bed
Thoughts of you fill my dreams at night
Losing focus, you're objectified
I apologize if my passion scares
I can feel you when you're not even there
Together in my imagination
Never think of seperation
Padded cell
Softly sleeping
Nightmare life
Soothing dreaming
Buried beneath the exterior
Lies a broken little girl
But i don't care to show you
My twisted little world
Collected photos in my bedroom hang above
Always reminding me of unrequited love
Padded cell
Softly sleeping
Nightmare life