About the product.
This camera takes APS film, which is no longer manufactured. It is sold as a showpiece.
A near-perfect survivor of a format that lost. The Kodak Advantix F320 dates from around 2001, near the end of the Advanced Photo System — the drop-in cartridge format that Kodak, Fuji, Canon, Minolta and Nikon jointly launched in 1996 to make film simpler than 35mm. It very nearly worked: no threading, no misloading, three selectable print formats, and a magnetic strip that recorded exposure data for the lab. Then digital arrived. APS camera production ended in 2004 and the last cartridges were made in 2011. What is left is this — a compact, unfussy, genuinely well-designed little object that has barely been touched in twenty-odd years.
Specifications
- Format: APS (Advanced Photo System) drop-in cartridge — not 35mm
- Lens: Kodak Ektanar 24mm f/6.4, fixed focal length
- Viewfinder: Reverse-Galilean with C / H / P format frame display
- Print formats: Classic, HDTV and Panoramic, selectable per frame
- Film speed: DXIX ISO 100 to 400
- Flash: Built-in with auto operation
- Power: Two AAA cells
- Era: Circa 2001, late in the Advantix line
Condition
- Cosmetic: Near mint. Minimal to no signs of age and use. Slight scratches inside the viewfinder with no impact on viewing.
- Functional: Working. Uses APS film — availability, developing and scanning of APS are all scarce, so it is sold as a showpiece.
Included
- Kodak Advantix F320 body
In short
The mechanism works. The obstacle is the film: APS stock is expired-only, and very few labs in India will process it. Buy this as a display object or as a curiosity from the format war that digital ended, not as a camera to shoot regularly.
