![]() So the APS system will stay popular for a while among its fans. The digital cameras which offer features like compactness and 3 print formats are still expensive, like the Leica D-LUX 2, or have no viewfinder, like the Panasonic Lumix DMC LS3. Processing is still possible, and cold-stored film can be found from various sources. The last APS film was manufactured by Fujifilm until July of 2011 and remaining stock was sold over the following ten months before being officially discontinued in May of 2012. Only film speed s 100, 200 and 400 ASA were generally available, with 100 being least common. ![]() A widespread complaint was high processing cost, up to one and a half times as much to develop. Minolta and Nikon made them new AF-lenses, Minolta even a new lens mount.ĪPS film was much better suited for use in compact 'point and shoot' cameras for the general public than for professional use, and while it fulfilled this need well, less than 5 years after its release digital technology became affordable and convenient - pushing APS format into a very small market share. The APS fan could even choose between several APS SLR cameras and camera bodies made by these companies. Olympus made the i-zoom and the newpic series. Fujifilm offered two series of APS cameras, the Fotonex and the nexia cameras. Each of the big three camera makers produced a unique camera series for the APS films, the Nikon Nuvis, Canon IXUS (Canon Elph) and Minolta Vectis series. Nevertheless the cute cameras had a lot of fans. ![]() ![]() So the system was accepted mainly by those who liked the three print formats. Most cameras for APS film were very compact, but some 35mm cameras were nearly as compact (for example some of the Olympus µ or Rollei prego cameras) so even this advantage of APS was nearly neutralized. But soon, 35mm films were sold with the same resolution. It was planned to give this sort of film a higher resolution to give APS users a clear advantage. The film's basic material is refined polyethylene naphthalate (A-PEN) foil, and its film emulsion is improved compared to pre-1996 35mm film emulsions.Įxamples of APS cameras cameras made by film makersĭespite the new film's features, its size hindered its adoption by professional photographers, having only 80% of the frame size (diagonal) of 35mm film and 56% of the area (at best, with HDTV format panorama format has only 30% area). The exposure numbers are stored twice, once as magnetic data, and another time enlighted on the film which has just one perforation with two holes per image. This marker shows whether the film is empty, in use, full, or developed. The additional mechanical marker in the film cartridge shows when a film is full. Thus a photographer can switch from the color film he actually uses to a black and white film for some exposures, and vice versa, until both films are full. It's also used for removing a film from a camera for putting it back into it later. The exposure data is useful for corrections of underexposure or matters like that by the photo laboratory. Some APS-film-viewers offer the possibility of changing the information on this magnetic storage, for example to switch the print format, or to add information for a slideshow on that viewing device. and for each image the print format, the preselected number of prints, the title, and the exposure data.PQI print quality improvement by storage of film type, film length, film speed, film ID,.Data for certain purposes is stored there on several tracks. The magnetic data storage on the film is made possible by a transparent magnetic coating of the film's back. Every single image on the developed film has this format, the print format is just information written by the camera onto magnetic storage on the film - which is used by the printing equipment to crop the picture appropriately. The C and P formats are formed by cropping, each format can be selected via the camera (with the exception of some disposable cameras) at any time for use with the format. P for "panoramic" (30.2 x 9.5 mm aspect ratio 3:1 4x12" print or 10x24 cm print).H for "HDTV" (30.2 x 16.7 mm aspect ratio 16:9 4x7" print or 10x18 cm print).C for "classic" (25.1 x 16.7 mm aspect ratio 3:2 4圆" print or 10x15 cm print).The film is even put back into its cartridge and returned to the user after it has been developed. The "IX240" film cartridges are optimized for fully automatic film load, enclosing the 24mm wide film completely when not in use. The Advanced Photo System (or APS) was introduced in 1996 as an alternative to or even as modern replacement for the 110 format.
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