  In this letter we experimentally demonstrate a possibility to achieve
significant sub-wavelength resolution of a near-field image channeled through a
layer of an electromagnetic crystal. An image having radius of $\lambda/10$ has
been realized using an electrically dense lattice of capacitively loaded wires.
The loading allows to reduce the lattice period dramatically so that it is only
a small fraction of the free-space wavelength. It is shown that losses in the
structure only decrease the total amplitude of the image, but do not influence
the resolution.
