Re: What is APS?

[P3D Allan Woods <allanwx@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A bit late, time-wise, but some comments on APS in response to
some other comments about APS, the film format for "other people."


>Being smaller format, one (RBT?) might be able to make a smaller
>stereo camera, however,...

But, why bother?

>*Even* if there were slide film, there'd be a serious problem.  The film
>never leaves it's cartridge (or not for long anyway).  It stays a single
>piece of film and stays in the cartridge.  
>
>Why is that bad?  If you want to pick your slides from several rolls
>of film and make them a group (sequenced or not), you're out of luck.

Wait! - If they ever do offer reversal colour transparency film in
the APS packaging format, I don't believe the "slides" will remain
in the package!  -unless they manufacture a slide projector (or
TV viewer!)

Once the slides are mounted, the original packaging would be irrelevant...
...and since most of APS is packaging, slides are anathema.


APS remains photography.  What it brings with it is "marketing."
The philosophy (if there is one) masquerades as "offering options."
The difference lies in where your base-line is.  If your base-line
is a one-button, fixed focus, no-tinker camera for people whose
VCR reads "12:00" then APS offers a confusing blizzard of possibilities.

If you know about f-stops, depth of field, ASA (ISO), etc. then APS
just limits your choices to the ones on Kodak's list. (Choose one
from column A.)

Remember, this APS thing isn't about photography - it is about money.

The only way to simplify anything is to eliminate or reduce choices.



>I'll wait for high-res digital where manipulation is a king (while in APS
>manipulation is a pawn).  Or maybe for APS-Plus! or APS-II, or some such.
>
Wow! Ever "manipulate" an image?  RGB? CMYK? Gamma? Un-Sharp mask?
Not exactly a one-button click-and-fix. If you want digital, Kodak
makes "Photo-CD"

...and as for APS-Plus or APS-II, well, that's called "35mm."

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