APS Film Scanning

I still shake at the memory - a couple of years ago a client asked us to scan about 50 APS films. We had never scanned APS before but I knew Nikon offered an adaptor that converted our Coolscans into APS film scanners.

So at some considerable expense I bought one.

It did three frames before giving up the ghost. I got a second, that did better, almost reaching the end of a film before expiring. The third scanned a couple of films (rather slowly I thought) before it too headed to the great APS graveyard. Nikon, Amazon and their pro supplier in London were very good about it but I ended up wishing we’d never agreed to scan the things in the first place. So I removed APS from our shopping list of capabilities.

As soon as you do that you know the demand will come back even if just to torment you, as it has, consistently. Finding a solution has been very difficult, APS is virtually a dead technology and dedicated APS scanners are yesterdays news. So we scratched our heads and we’ve come up with a solution.

So APS film scanning is back on the 1Scan film scanning menu, and our APS price list. And we now smile happily when APS cartridges arrive in the mail.