Actually there is a little tool for opening APS canisters for viewing the film, but it doesn't do much good because the negs are so small that the customer can't see what you are trying to show them. Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 5:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pentax APS F I L M SLR? "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "J. C. O'Connell" > >> BTW, did pentax ever make a APS FILM SLR? > >No. >Canon did, and it even used an EOS mount, and would mount EOS lenses. >They made a couple of lenses just for it, the wide angle on would >just about cover 35mm. >I think Nikon might have, but I haven't following APS film cameras at >all. Nikon did make one. It was called the "Pronea" or something similarly silly. Thankfully, APS is all but dead now. Last week we had a customer bring two APS cameras into the shop for repair. Well, he brought them in because they'd died in mid-roll (and, no, it wasn't a case of dead batteries) and he wanted us to get the film out. We discovered it couldn't be done on these models without disassembly of the camera. So he'll have to pay labor charges to a repair shop to get the film out before he throws the cameras away. The previous week we had a customer complaining about low-contrast, grainy prints. If it had been 35mm we'd have just thrown the negatives on the light table and said "look, they're drastically underexposed" but the negs were sealed in that little APS cartridge so we just had to try to convince her to take our word that it really wasn't our fault. NOT jumping into the APS market in a big way was one of the best decisions Pentax ever made :) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
