RE: OT: APS Camera Suggestions

["Ray Barnett" <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Why not buy a good quality 35mm compact camera and a guillotine then?
Serious suggestion, because all that happens when you switch an APS
camera
to landscape is that it codes information on the negative asking the
processor to print it bigger then cut the top and bottom off - something
you
can do yourself with any photo. Throwing away half the negative (which
is
effectively what APS does) has always seemed daft to me given how small
the
negative is to start off with.

Modern 35mm compacts are very easy to load film to, can be idiot proof,
and
turn out fine results. APS (IMHO) seems to limit your choice on cameras,
and
ups the costs of film and processing quite a bit.

Ray Barnett.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: BUTLER, Tony, FM [mailto:roaming@xxxxxxx]
  Sent: 14 October 2002 14:51
  To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
  Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT: APS Camera Suggestions


  > Tony,
  >
  > Can I ask why APS rather than a traditional 35mm SLR?

  Certainly you can ask...........
  Oh, you want an answer? :-)

  The answer is:
  SWMBO's mum has a very cheap and cheerful point and click
traditional
camera
  SWMBO's dad has an SLR, everything manual, takes 1/2 an hr to set
up
jobbie.

  On holiday,
  mum's camera doesn't give good pics coz of limited options, no red
eye
  stuff, no zoom etc etc.
  dad's camera does not give good pics because takes too long to set
up so
the
  moment is past or mum is asked to take the piccie or dad forgets to
set
the
  aperature correctly etc etc.

  Can't be doing with a new fangled digital camera, and want
something
  somewhere between the two types.
  At this stage, could still go for a standard camera however.....
  many of dad's shots are landscape type things, and APS does
W-I-D-E
  landscape shots.

  Yes, I know a 'serious' photographer wouldn't touch APS with a
bargepole
  because the aps negative is about 1/2 the size of a 35mm one, the
image
  quality will be less when blown up etc etc, but then, he's got his
SLR
  camera for "serious" stuff......

  cheers,


  Tony


 
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