From DPR learn/glossary:.
APS (Active Pixel Sensors).
FallingphotogirlSydney, Australia.
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APS stands for Advanced Photographic Systems. It was the format old aps film cameras use. It is the same size as the standard dslr fram size...
I don't think that was the APS the OP was referring to as sensor was mentioned?fallingphotogirlSydney, Australia.
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I think the OP was referring to the sensor size approximately equivalent to the APS-C negative size...
I know it's a less-than-full-frame sensor size, but I'm curiouswhere the name comes from..
APS, in reference to a "less-than-full-frame sensor size" describes the size of the chip.!!! ; )..
Smcndjm wrote:.
APS stands for Advanced Photographic Systems. It was the format oldaps film cameras use. It is the same size as the standard dslr framsize..
I think that might be it. Thanks.SteveGo a little farther, see a littler farther...
Doesn't seem that long ago that APS film cameras were the new thing. I still have a Minolta Vectis UC APS camera, and my wife and mom both have Kodak APS cameras (though my mom just got a Nikon P&S a month ago)..
Comparisons between 35mm and APS showed that APS was pretty close in image quality despite it's smaller size. One advantage APS film had was that it was quite a bit thicker than 35mm film and was easier to hold very flat in the film plane..
APS film could store EXIF information from cameras equipped to write itI can't remember right now if it was stored magnetically on a strip along the edge of the film or "encoded" optically (bar code, maybe) along the edge..
The APS-C ("Classic") format was one of three formats every APS camera could use. There was also H or HD ("High Definition," the same aspect ratio as HD TV sets would supposedly get) and P(anorama). Classic and Panorama were both crops of H, which was the full APS frame size..
Smcndjm wrote:.
It was the format old aps film cameras use...
Telyx wrote:.
Comparisons between 35mm and APS showed that APS was pretty close in image quality despite it's smaller size..
The top-of-the line Canon EOS-1D Mark III uses an APS-H sensor with dual Digic III chips!SteveGo a little farther, see a littler farther...
Telyx wrote:.
Comparisons between 35mm and APS showed that APS was pretty close inimage quality despite it's smaller size..
The argument the APS vendors used was that APS film was new and improved. Of course, they didn't rush to point out that whatever film advances they made for APS negatives could just as easily be applied to the larger 35mm negatives...
Telyx wrote:.
Comparisons between 35mm and APS showed that APS was pretty close inimage quality despite it's smaller size..
I spent one Christmas season working in a photo processing facility. (Not an in-store one hour photo) I spent most of my day on APS prints then the last few hours on 35mm..
The APS prints looked fine until I got to the 35mm prints. It was quite easy to see the 35mm's superior IQ. But then I start the next day on APS and they look fine until.....
Smcndjm wrote:.
I know it's a less-than-full-frame sensor size, but I'm curiouswhere the name comes from..
APS, in reference to a "less-than-full-frame sensor size" describesthe size of the chip.!!! ; ).
And here's me thinking full frame was 8" x 10", although most people have forgotten it and think 4" x 5" film is full frame....
Best to look at it as each one is a format, like 35 mm film can be used as 18 mm x 24 mm, 24 x 30, 24, 32, 24 x 33, 24 x 36, 24 x 58 and 24 x 65 and so on..
Equally 120/220 film came in three or four formats..
And then there's APS and 110 disc and 8 x 11 mm and they're all film sizes..
I blame the marketing people for all this confusion..
Regards, David..
And those film improvements happened very quickly to 35mm, didn't they? Win-win for the film companies, since they could just put the same emulsion on the wider strip. ISO 200 pretty much replaced 100 as "all-purpose daylight" film because the grain was small enough, and 400 suddenly didn't look all that grainy. (Actually, improvements made to film emulsions for DISC cameras were also applied to 35mm. Isn't that where Kodak's "T-grain" technology came from?).
I liked the smaller size of APS P&S cameras compared to 35mm, but while I liked the idea of getting the APS negative back in the cartridge instead of in a sleeve (or, worse, in a paper envelope), it made storing all those packets a pain because of the cartridge bulge...
You know, I think one of the columnists in either Popular Photography or Modern Photography wrote that the APS format was partly created for it's digital possibilities, or had potential to become a digital format.....
You saw enough of each in a day to notice, and saw them first hand. The comparison pictures in magazines didn't make the differences so obvious, and the people doing the comparisons probably shot a roll of APS film, got their prints back, and didn't notice much (if any) difference..
I know my Canon AE-1 with 35mm film did better than my Vectis UC APS P&S, but the Vectis did better than my Olympus Stylus Zoom 35mm P&S...
Telyx wrote:.
You know, I think one of the columnists in either Popular Photographyor Modern Photography wrote that the APS format was partly createdfor it's digital possibilities, or had potential to become a digitalformat....
I'm thinking about the flagship Canon with APS-H and dual Digic IIIs if Canon were to make some lenses to APS-scale, it might be a not-so-bulky set-up that could lure some of us away from Advanced Compact Digital (ACD) cameras.SteveGo a little farther, see a littler farther...
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Bad source, because it is wrong..
Now we probably should not trust anything else from this source, either..
BAK..
Ain't Projecting Slides.
Amateur Photo System.
Always Point and Shoot.
Thank god it died...
Not dead yet, But one foot is in the grave.....
Don't have an APS film camera, but CVS and the like still sell camera's and film..
I think as soon as Digital P&S get down to under $30.00 for a 4mp camera (not a kids Digital). Then maybe APS Film and camera's will be history for the most part anyway..
Qwerty13 wrote:.
Ain't Projecting Slides.
Amateur Photo System.
Always Point and Shoot.
Thank god it died..
'Well, Good Luck With That' (SpongeBob SquarePants).
Peter .
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Full Frame Advance Photo System..
Will people STOP using 'Full Frame'! It means sod all..
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For that matter, remember the Pentax 110 SLR? Imagine that with maybe a 3.2-megapixel sensor.....
Tim the Grey wrote:.
Full Frame Advance Photo System..
Will people STOP using 'Full Frame'! It means sod all..
Http://catmangler.smugmug.com/...mID=2825269&Size=Thumb&rand=7128.jpghttp://catmangler.smugmug.com/.
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35mm isn't full frame for lenses having image circles for 645 cameras....
I used to have one of these sweet little babies:.
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Yeah, I forgot about that one! Wouldn't a digital version of that be a gas?..
Smcndjm wrote:.
APS stands for Advanced Photographic Systems. It was the format oldaps film cameras use. It is the same size as the standard dslr framsize..
This is correctSteve..