Are any of the lenses from the higher-end APS film cameras useable on APS-size digital cameras? I know that Olympus Pen F half-frame lenses are popular, and some sell for serious $$. But I can't recall ever reading if Nikon Pronea or other brand APS lenses are being used. As an extra note, ultrafineonline (Photo Warehouse) lists many APS emulsions on their web page.I have no idea why this size was selected but I can guess. Kodak, as you know, had the first patent on the digital camera. That is on record. They had whipped up some camera designs with Canon and Nikon and were trying to tie it all together with the lens compatibility noted above.
Other than that, I have no suggestions.
PE
Are any of the lenses from the higher-end APS film cameras useable on APS-size digital cameras? I know that Olympus Pen F half-frame lenses are popular, and some sell for serious $$. But I can't recall ever reading if Nikon Pronea or other brand APS lenses are being used. As an extra note, ultrafineonline (Photo Warehouse) lists many APS emulsions on their web page.
Well, this was not a Kodak idea. It was a joint idea of several manufacturers. It was not always Kodak's fault.
Disc came before APS. The film, as manufactured, never came up to the quality expected from R&D results. If it had, it would have survived and grown.
PE
Disc was released in 1982. APS was released in 1996.Disc was announced by Kodak AFTER APS. Kodak was self destructive in that it tried to convince labs to invest in disc machinery ($10K), explaining in written announcement (which I saw) that they knew it was crap but that, happily, certain customers were so blind they wouldn't notice and would, after all, have to pay for many more prints than they would have with APS. And Kodak DID see digital coming. Shareholders should have dismantled Eastman Kodak and sold the residue on eBay.
Kodak's moron/villains knew about digital sensors and recording, bought and crushed a digital video company to protect their fabulously profitable and wasteful high speed camera film business (high speed burned phenomenal amounts of film for NASA and defense dept while Kodak's own digital video system could have saved taxpayers billions). \\
Kodak was no worse in its way than was Polaroid, whose biggest corporate client was South Africa, which demanded Polaroid photos in the legally required IDs of every non-white.
Disc format introduction - 1982Disc was announced by Kodak AFTER APS. Kodak was pre-Trumpian in that it tried to convince labs to invest in disc machinery ($10K), explaining in written announcement (which I saw) that they knew it was crap but certain customers were so blind they wouldn't notice and would, after all, have to pay for many more prints than they would have with APS. And Kodak DID see digital coming.
Kodaks moron/villians knew about digital video, bought and crushed a digital video company to protect their fabulously profitable and wasteful high speed camera film business (high speed burned phenomenal amounts of film for NASA and defense dept while Kodak's own digital video system could have saved taxpayers billions). Kodak was no worse in its way than was Polaroid, whose biggest corporate client was South Africa, which demanded Polaroid photos in the legally required IDs of every non-white.
Disc was announced by Kodak AFTER APS. Kodak was self destructive in that it tried to convince labs to invest in disc machinery ($10K), explaining in written announcement (which I saw) that they knew it was crap but that, happily, certain customers were so blind they wouldn't notice and would, after all, have to pay for many more prints than they would have with APS. And Kodak DID see digital coming. Shareholders should have dismantled Eastman Kodak and sold the residue on eBay.
Kodak's moron/villains knew about digital sensors and recording, bought and crushed a digital video company to protect their fabulously profitable and wasteful high speed camera film business (high speed burned phenomenal amounts of film for NASA and defense dept while Kodak's own digital video system could have saved taxpayers billions). \\
Kodak was no worse in its way than was Polaroid, whose biggest corporate client was South Africa, which demanded Polaroid photos in the legally required IDs of every non-white.
Aps carts don't hold film flat and can't be scanned without mechanical grief by proper (ie Nikon) scanners.
Netherteless you are right PE - Disc format was a mistake ! What are we talking about :See the above posts. I stand by my comments.
PE
What do you mean by "APS cards"? APS slides?
Once processed APS negative film was returned spooled back into the APS cassette, not so much different to, over here, getting your negative film back rolled and put into a cylindrical box (as alternative to film strips being returned in paper envelopes).
APS cartridges, I expect.I still do not understand what "APS carts" are.
I still do not understand what "APS carts" are.
And yes I as photographer want my negative film back after processing.
Some Nikon lenses can and some cannot. It has to do with the extension of the lens into the camera and the prism IIRC. But then, some Nikon film lenses can be used on their digital cameras to good effect.
PE
We're not quite on same wavelength but we agree to some extent. 1) I don't know why people send film away. 2) Some labs now assume that you don't want your film back when you order "process and print" unless you specify that. The answer, if you are really an analog-lover" is to process and print your own. IMO
jtk - let me state : That is the todays most strange issue (you mentioned the procedure of labs in the US)!2) Some labs now assume that you don't want your film back when you order "process and print" unless you specify that. IMO
Just translate 8 x 10 into Megapixel and we have to wait a full decade!Bad as Disc system prints were, at least the format enabled one to say "I shoot 8x10." That's how large its film negative images were. Of course, in mm, not inches.
Bad as Disc system prints were, at least the format enabled one to say "I shoot 8x10." That's how large its film negative images were. Of course, in mm, not inches.
Well,... Now I kind of want to make a large format "Disc System" camera, mostly "For the LuLz" as some would say... Should squeeze into something less than 40" across, and be good at drawing a crowd if shooting in public.
Could sell ad-space on the camera even...
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