Lomography's DigitaLIZA lets you shoot on film and scan the negatives with your phone.

Taking film photos is easy, and you can even develop the film in your kitchen. But making prints? Forget about it. You need a darkroom, or at least a dark cupboard, and it’s a real investment in time and equipment. You’re better off buying a special film scanner or, as we’ll see today, scanning the negatives with your smartphone.

“The brand new Lomography DigitaLIZA+ and DigitaLIZA Max are new, all-in-one film scanning kits,” Lomography’s Birgit Buchart told Lifewire via email. “[They’re] suitable for beginners and advanced photographers alike, for scanning at home [and] on the go.”

For best results when scanning film, you should use a dedicated film scanner. However, these are expensive, quite slow, and bulky. Still, they deliver stunning results and are the best choice if you want to squeeze every last detail out of your film negatives or slides.