Here I would like to present some pictures taken with my EOS IX. The format used with APS is a little bit different from that of 35mm film (side ratio is 16:9 compared to 3:2 with 35mm). In panoramic format, this ratio can extend to 3:1!
A negative in APS format has the size 16,8 x 30 mm². It is a little bit smaller than the "usual" 35mm format (24 x 36 mm²) and hase a different ratio between width and height of 16:9 (which is the same as PAL-Plus TV or the american HDTV, where 35mm uses the ratio 3:2).
When you get back the prints from a lab, 10cm (4") hight prints in C and H format have been enlarged 6x from the negative (10x15cm² and 10x18cm²), where prints in P format have been enlarged up to 9.6x (10x30cm²). 10x being the limit when effects concerning the film grain start to get visible, so with a P print you can easily see the difference between a fine and a coarse grained film emulsion. A 10x enlarged print of 35mm film would be 24x36cm² in size, and of medium format, you would get a poster with each side being 55cm in lenght.
In the APS specification, there are from the beginning 3 different formats of prints mentioned by just cropping parts of the negative during printing. These are:
With format P the "up to" has to be read the follwing way: There are only few labs who actually enlarge the prints up to a ratio of 3:1, in most cases the resulting ratio is about 2,5:1, meaning that a) the negative does not get enlarged that much and b) above and below, there are only around 2mm of the negative cropped.
The following three images show the tree possible formats in the relative sizes when you get back the prints from the lab:
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The name panoramic format is a little bit incorrect, because the negative has only 30mm in width - with that, you can only use up to 30mm of it, not 35 or 56mms (as some REAL panoramic cameras in 35mm do, which expose the negative during rotation of the front lens combined with moving it along a narrow slit). The only way of getting a similar effect with an APS camera would be using a fish-eye lens to get as much as angle of view possible. With the aid of the vertical cropping, the image portion with maximum distortion (the corners) will not be visible on the print, looking nearly like such a panoramic view of more than 135° angle of view.
Here I want to show some subjects which happened to be fixed on negative by my EOS IX.
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Fresh leaves of beeches from the Büdingen forest. The image was taken a week before easter 2001 with 300mm focal lenght of my EF 75-300mm 1/4-5.6 IS USM. The lens was wide open, and using the image stabilizer, 1/180s exposure time were short enought to capture a sharp image. |
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The branch of an apple tree in our garden. More than 10 years ago, in the night from 18th to 19th of may 1990, there was extreme frost below -8°C. Because all the trees in our garden were allready full "in juice", the frost had broken apart the bark, leaving such marks on it years later. Some of the trees did not survive the harsh weather.
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| View of the Herzberg from my room. The image was taken around easter 2001 with 300mm of focal length. |
| A tulip from the garden in front of our house.
Image taken with EF 75-300mm. |
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Some leaves, lighted by the evening sun from behind. The image has been cropped in C format, and even a ratio of H:W from 1:1 would have been enough for this image. |
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This house originally was part of a former coal mine in the Büdingen forest, close to Rinderbügen. |
