Re: APS CAMERAS

[P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 9:06 AM -0700 10/10/97, P3D Brian Reynolds wrote:
>Jim Crowell wrote:
>> Not to mention that with some of them you can choose from a number of
>> formats & mix formats on a roll.  I've always been partial to panoramic
>> format, myself...I figure if I ever get enough money for a second camera, a
>> twin APS zoom rig would complement the Realist nicely...
>>
>
>Actually this bit of APS marketing is somewhat misleading (as is most
>of the rest of APS marketing, and probably all marketing). (Have I
>made enough unsubstantiated generalities yet? :)
>
>APS cameras achieve different formats by cropping the frame.  The
>landscape, portrait and normal formats all use the same size frame of
>film and simply mark cropping instructinos on the magnetic strip.  You
>can do similar cropping with 35mm film (or any other film format).


Hmm...I didn't think it was misleading.  I was always perfectly aware of
this.  But it's certainly more convenient to have the camera viewfinder
change the frame depending on format, and to encode on the film that you
want to have a particular frame on the negative printed as a panorama...

-Jim C.

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