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APS, IX240, or Advantix

Let us help you get the film out of those special cartridges and onto CD’s or DVD’s so that you can share or print the images.

IX240 Film Cartridge – Fuji’s APS System

IX240 Film Cartridge – Fuji’s APS System

Kodak’s APS System

Kodak’s APS System

                                  

What Is Advantix or APS or IX240 film anyway?

APS (Advanced Photo System) or IX240 or Advantix film are three different names for describing a special method of managing negatives that is supposed to make it easier for the customer.  Kodak and Fuji are two brands that I’ve seen and there may be more.  The film comes in cartridges similar to the style of most 35mm still camera film.  The film is 24mm wide, unlike the standard 35mm film.  Once the film is exposed, the cartridge gets sent in for developing as per normal 35mm film.  The difference is when the film comes back from the developer.  The customer will get back the cartridge with the negatives inside and a prove sheet or index sheet of all the photos.  Unlike other 35mm film, APS or IX240 or Advantix system does not provides the customer access to the negatives.  You need a special device that can pull the negatives out of the cartridge if you want to do anything with the negatives.

We can scan those negatives into digital and provide those images on CD or DVD or harddrive.

Ideas

We’ve had a number of customers that have theses APS or IX240 or Advantix negatives and do not own a computer so we’ve put the images onto a memory card and they play the pictures in a digital photo frame.

Contact us today to see how we can help you.

Prints

Do you have boxes of photos. Imagine having them all on your computer to share, put into a slideshow, or into a digital frame. We can scan your photos. We even handle estates where we can duplicate photos and pictures into digital images for siblings to share.

Whether they are in a shoebox or in storage your prints are at some risk. This risk can be solved by scanning these valuable historic records and having multiple duplicates stored in a  few locations; if not to share, at least for safe keeping.

IX240 Cartridge

The Advanced Photo System was an attempt of a major upgrade of photographic technology for amateurs, but was soon overtaken by the popularity of digital photography. Despite the added features, APS never really caught on with professional photographers because of the significantly smaller film area (56% of 135 film). Color slide film, popular with professional photographers, proved unpopular in APS format and was soon discontinued (although chromogenic black-and-white IX240 film continued to be produced). Color print film was normally available only in a limited selection of film speeds and color formats. These developments, combined with the fact that auto-loading 35mm cameras could be made almost as compact, as convenient, and as inexpensive as APS-format cameras, prevented APS from attaining greater popularity.

Advantix Cartridge

The Advanced Photo System was an attempt of a major upgrade of photographic technology for amateurs, but was soon overtaken by the popularity of digital photography. Despite the added features, APS never really caught on with professional photographers because of the significantly smaller film area (56% of 135 film). Color slide film, popular with professional photographers, proved unpopular in APS format and was soon discontinued (although chromogenic black-and-white IX240 film continued to be produced). Color print film was normally available only in a limited selection of film speeds and color formats. These developments, combined with the fact that auto-loading 35mm cameras could be made almost as compact, as convenient, and as inexpensive as APS-format cameras, prevented APS from attaining greater popularity.

Postives or Slides

Let Lifetime Heritage Films preserve your family’s irreplaceable memories.  We can transfer your 35mm slides to easy-to-use DVD.  We can take those slides sitting on boxes or trays and restore them to their original clarity or even better so that your family can cherish those unforgettable moments forever.

How can we serve you?

We can scan slides into a number of digital formats, typically jpg or tif, but other formats are available.  Our standard slide scanning is done at 4000 dpi (dots-per-inch) however we are able to provide lessor or greater dpi’s.  During our slide scanning we also have the ability to fix and cleanup your slides.  What does this all mean to you….well the digital image that we produce can be used to print and very large photo and it will look amazing.

What does 4000 dpi mean?

A 35mm slide scanned at 4000 dpi can print a photo at about 21 X 14 inches (53 X 36 cm).

Your slides aren’t 35mm?

No problem, we can handle pretty much any transparencies.  Glass slides, large format slides, slides in metal frames….contact us today for a quote.

Sending Your Slides to Us

  1. Prepare or organize your slides.
  2. Send the slides to us.
  3. The preferred method is to personally deliver the slides to our office.
  4. But if you live to far you can mail or courier them to us.  Just make sure that you get the address correct and make sure that you ask for a signature so that you have evidence that the package was delivered correctly.