Kodak T550
The Kodak T550 is a diminutive camera that separated itself from the rest of the APS pack with a flash that flipped up from its other duty as a lens cover. The 28mm f3.5 lens gives an angle of view similar to a 35mm lens on a 35mm film camera when you use the entire film area of 30.2mmx16.7mm. With each APS exposure the full image area is recorded and with that also recorded magnetically the aspect ratio setting the user had selected. There were three settings known as H (high definition), C (Classic) and P (Panoramic) so while the entire image area was always recorded, during printing the machine would read the magnetic info and crop the images accordingly. I prefer to use the full 16:9 aspect ratio for composing images as it is the one interesting thing about APS film. And it shouldn’t be a surprise but I used out of date non refrigerated film with an unknown history as that is my primary source of APS film.
