The same happened with original expired APS film with bad magnetic strip!
My efforts so far have failed. I got the film cut to the right size, got the perfs lined up. The camera will load the film but just wind to the end and then rewind it. I've tried in Top of the line cameras, mid and cheap. So far no luck. I wonder if Mr. Chong knows something I don't.
Ok, four months later, I found my one APS cartridge and Advantix camera. The idea of taping 16mm film to the APS film did NOT work. It bound up in the camera.
Even a strip of 16mm film only 20cm long still bound and jammed the camera.
I think I'll stick to reloading sheet film holders, 35mm, 16mm and Minox cartridges for now.
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He says it all in his report -- a total PITA. In my book that means APS is DOA.
At least there still are a ton of great 35mm half-frame cameras out there for people interested in the format (almost exactly the same) and smaller cameras -- like the Pentax 17 and Ektar H35.
http://www.subclub.org/shop/halframe.htm
When Canon first introduced their APS film camera(s), they hadn't yet designed lenses which were specific to the smaller frame, or a lens mount designed for that purpose. So the initial camera(s) and lenses used a full frame EF mount, and those first lenses were usable on full frame EF mount film cameras.
I have a fun, useful and small 22-55mm zoom lens from that time which is very handy on my EOS film bodies, and worked well on the APS digital body I had for a time.
I like the wide APS format too. Be nice if a modern digital camera would have that.
They do. It's called cropping. I do it more often than not -- but I know that's blasphemy to some.
I like to see what I'm shooting through the viewfinder as I'm shooting. I also like the idea of a native aspect ratio. Sure I can crop a 6x6 any way I want, and it can handle it. But I like composing for 6x6 on a 6x6.
I went through a bunch of old photos yesterday, looking for some negatives. As I came across a couple of rolls of APS films I though to myself "wow, this did not age well". Sorry to be of no help.
Was there anything else other than the Nikon 5000 (and some predecessors) that could scan APS film?
Sometimes you have to go to eBay when a scanner needs service. My other scanner is a 35mm-only Acer Scanwit 2740s. When the drive gear broke, I bought a 2720s for the part.
Kodak was really interested in making a success of APS
Yep, the format came and went fast. I put it in the same category as MiniDisc, something absolutely brilliant that happened to hit the market in the wrong time; APS as digital cameras started to become available to the general public, and MiniDisc as MP3 players became popular.You mean the format came and went so fast you could blink and miss it? At least it lives on as a popular digital sensor size because the size had a lot going for it in terms of smaller cameras smaller lenses and good enough image quality
Yep, the format came and went fast. I put it in the same category as MiniDisc, something absolutely brilliant that happened to hit the market in the wrong time; APS as digital cameras started to become available to the general public, and MiniDisc as MP3 players became popular.
Minidisc came out in 1993, quite a few years before MP3 players. It wasn’t hugely successful in the US, but it was ubiquitous in Japan. Last time I was there, in 2019, you could still easily buy blank minidiscs at any electronics store.
mp3 killed what MD could have become.
Apart from a couple of niche applications. I had a girlfriend in those days who was a stage performer. Minidisc was used extensively in that scene to record and evaluate rehearsals. In fact, it was the de-facto standard. Contrary to CD or early-day MP3, minidisc allowed live recording, which was a killer feature in that particular niche. For the mass public that just wanted to play back studio recordings, this was irrelevant, however.
That’s pretty cool, I didn’t know that.
About winding unexposed film -may be it also depends of camera.
It hapened to me with a new unopened film. Some years ago I bought from Ebay different sets of 10-20 new expired films, Fuji, Kodak, Konica.
I talk to my friend, he is a owner of photolab in Vilnius, the only who works with APS, he said that the poor magnetic strip that give instruction to lab machine can be the problem.
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