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Now that I think of it, APS sounds like a 35mm version of Kodak's 126 Instamatic system. I saw it in the photo magazines of the time and passed, preferring the skills perfected by using Ye Olde Leica IIIa.
These days I view APS film as a high-end subcompact system.
Words of warning to those wanting to try it out : (1) Buy your film SEALED or make sure you TRUST the seller. (2) MAKE SURE the tab to the right of the number 3 on the cartridge has NOT been broken. I have not seen one YT vid that addresses this issue. It is easy to tamper with the cartridge to make it look like a new roll. (3) Film can get stuck in the camera. Soooo not good!
Hey Azriel!
I was wondering if one would be able to develop this on their own? ( same as 35mm film)
Somebody needs to make film you can develop in the microwave.
Somehow APS film seems to have passed me by. I have no memory of it.
Fujifilm looks great though.
Great review thanks never gave aps a thought as I'd gone digital early on. Now I'm back with film going to give it try. Thanks again.
APS "panorama" was a complete fraud foisted on a gullible public. A "panorama" print was only ever the center portion of an 8×12 print.
Went to thift store and it had a weird looking flim in it. Thank you for the video!!!!
Amazing episode, thank you Azriel!
Probably what really killed aps, or at least the final nail in its coffin, was the digital revolution. Between 96 and 2k digicams started getting better and better and more and more affordable. By 2002 you could make decent prints from an entry-level DSLR. In 2004 there was a megashift when entire camera store inventories were appearing on Ebay and it seems that was the year the world went digital en masse. A couple years later you could get a brand new digicam for under 200 bucks that was good enough for 8×10 prints. APS could very well have been the next big thing if it hadn't been for digital. And the APS sensor size is with us to this day, and may even get good enough one day to make full-frame cams unnecessary. (Notwithstanding Nikon's and Canon's recent taking on of the full-frame mirrorless market)
Great video with great information. 👌🏼
you are now my fav YouTuber, hi from peru
Awesome video!
I used this! Jeez, I've got all that stuff stored up someplace. Probably no way to process it again these days.
I wonder what would happen if digital cameras never came to market, or at least were delayed by maybe a decade. APS would have a much bigger influence than it did
Great video. What was the iso of the film that you shot on? 200?
How did the camera give a preview ?
Please continue this segment.
That beard though
9:53 "There are three modes – APS-P for panoramic, APS-H for high definition, and APS-C…" holy fuck it's like a lightbulb went off in my head! So THAT'S why crop DSLR sensors are called that!
I was given one of the point and shoot APS cameras by my mom for a birthday… or Christmas… not really sure. But boy did that thing take a beating and keep on chugging right along up until I started taking a photographable class in high school. Didn’t even think twice about it until I learned they made SLRs for the system. Now I’ve become somewhat obsessed.
I had the Canon EOS IX. Coolest things about APS over 35mm:
1) Prints would have the capture date/time, speed, aperture recorded on the back
2) Ordering reprints was super easy — just look at the index print, hand the canister to your processor and tell them "i want #10, 12, 35". No more fumbling through a drawer/envelope of scratched negatives, holding negatives up to the light to see if it's the right picture, etc.
3) Mid-roll change. You could take half a roll of color, then change it out for the C-41 black and white. Then switch back to color.
4) No chance of accidentally opening the film door and losing your pics.
5) The impossibly small size of the Canon Elph.
Frustrations:
1) Often the canisters were fragile and the plastic cogs/door/etc. would break when being wound/rewound/etc.
2) Poor image quality due to the stupidly small negative size.
3) Limited film choices.
There was a good option to scan APS, BTW — Nikon made an APS adapter for their CoolScan products. (If anyone wants to buy one, get in touch!)
im surprised they kept making the film for so long. I feel like by 07' or so the only people i knew who still used film were the ones who really liked it, and they always used 35mm or larger formats. Besides, did they really think it would compete with the emerging digital cameras? Even then they must have realized it was dangerous to put so much money into it, and i feel like it was a last ditch effort to keep film as the main photographic medium
Super fascinating! Thank you!!
Great stuff, it sure brought back some memories. I did invest in some of the APS, bought me a Minolta Vectis S-1 and lenses, plus later a Canon IXUS of the smallest kind they made to be able to take the camera everywhere.
It would be fun to see a review of the Minolta Vectis APS system cameras and your take of the system and lenses.
I was fascinated with the small size of aps cameras when i was a student but never bought into it because it was generally more expensive than 35mm and offered no real useful advantages to justify the extra cost. I’m curious to try out aps cameras now but i wonder if it possible re-use an aps cartridge by rolling in some fresh film from bulk. I don’t want to be stuck with expired films