Canon Elph Aps Camera

I'm baiting someone with this question. Yes, I know what APS film is. I have owned a few APS cameras, including the first "real" APS camera - the Canon ELPH. Please don't give me a link to an explanation of APS film and tell me that you thought that was what the question was about.

APS film is considerably smaller than 35mm film. Take that from someone who has actually seen and used both films rather than read about them on Wikipedia.

Here are several examples of APS FILM images, just to show that I know the difference between an APS film camera and an APS sensor.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstei n/tags/aps

I hate it when I am corrected by someone who was born after APS film was gone from the market as if he is the authority.

Yes, go ahead and report this question. It's been a long time...
Yes, I used the panoramic mode for two reasons. One was to use it as a panoramic. (duh) The other was so that I could get a 4R print cropped out of the center of the panoramic negative, effectively doubling the telephoto reach of the lens. I cropped an already-cropped image. That's funny, because it was about 10 years before we were all doing this with digital APS sensors. Probably before some people here were even born.
And I'm only using this forum, because the individual that I would like to address has his e-mail and questions and answers blocked. I know of no other way to reach him for this discussion. I wish I could see a link to come of his photography in keeping with KK's "Put Up or Shut Up" question from last year.
I have not had any run-ins with anyone, guys. I usually just let these things pass, but there is one member who has answered so MANY questions just plain incorrectly that it bothers me. He called me out on an answer and his point totally missed the point. It would be as if I told a story about how my grandfather broke his arm starting his car and the kid wrote that I didn't know what I was talking about, just because he never heard of a starter crank. Something like that. The thing is, he answers with such AUTHORITY, even when he is dead wrong. I may not agree with someone's opinion on something, but please don't misstate facts as if your version was gospel.
FotoZ, I have no problem with you. We may have different opinions at times, but how can an "opinion" be wrong? At least you readily provide access to your work so we know where you are coming from. Your "street cred" is high with me because of that.

Gateway, thanks for correcting me. I always appreciate that and admit it when I am wrong. Not that I am going to run out and buy any APS film, but I am glad to become better informed. It's been so long since I even looked for the stuff that I thought it was gone by now. I must remember Kodak making an announcement about it or something, but Fuji's a good company. Ahh, I remember when the green box first appeared on the shelves... I think.

Just for the record, I do not report people or even give thumbs down, either. The only way to get reported by me or get a thumbs down is to join Yahoo! Answers today and start spamming with a list of all the sneakers that you sell at your website or something like that.

Remember it - and hated it. When I worked in a lab I had people all the time who didn't know they'd shot their entire roll as pano and then wanted to complain about the price. Last I checked it's not gone though, we were still selling it at the store I worked about a year ago, but it was only available from Fuji.

Oh, and as for your "doubling focal length" thing - not true. APS cameras didn't actually crop the negative, the images on the negative were all the same size, the film stored digital data telling the printer how the image was shot, and it was cropped there. So, effectively you could have shot it in any of the available settings and had it printed as any of the available sizes.

2010-02-05 21:01:21 by Picture Taker

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