What is an APS Film Camera?
An APS film camera is a camera that takes advantage of the Advanced Photo System™ procedure invented by the Eastman Kodak Company, in association with several other photography companies. The point was to introduce a new type of film and camera to the mass market that would be more user-friendly than anything up to that point. In some cases, it was dismissed as a marketing scheme and in others it was praised as a new standard in still photography. The development began in 1991, but it was not until October of 1995 the new system was announced at a trade show in London, followed by a trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada, in February of the next year. The system reached its apex of popularity in the late 1990s, but then found itself floundering as more advanced digital cameras started flooding the marketplace. Kodak marketed the APS film camera under the brand name Advantix®. By the middle part of the first decade of the 21st century, APS film cameras were no longer being manufactured. The AP