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With its silver metallic finish,
the Prima Super 90W comes with a built-in 28-90mm f/4.5-9.9 zoom lens. The camera
is very compact and lightweight, weighing at only 245 grams (non-caption) and 250
grams (caption/date model) without batteries. It is powered by one CR123A/DL 123A
lithium battery.
Zooming from the 28mm wide-angle to medium telephoto is by pressing the power zoom
button located at the back of the camera near the top right. I did have a couple
of problems while testing this camera - since the lens cover also acted as the ON/OFF
switch, occasionally the camera just went "dead" and I can't press the
shutter to take a picture. What happened was the camera had shut off whenever my
right hand had accidentally moved the lens cover slightly in - this gave a signal
to the Prima Super 90W that I wanted to turn it off and it just reacted to my "command".
When this happened, any setting that I had made for the Prima Super 90W like Autoflash
and Red-eye Reduction Off as well as manual exposure compensation would be erased
from the memory and I had to reset them all over again.
Did I mention Manual exposure compensation? That's right. The Prima Super 90W also
features a manual exposure compensation mode. This is only possible when you have
set the camera to cancel its Autoflash fill-in mode. You can select from either a
+1.5-stop or -1.5-stop compensation to increase or decrease exposure when flash is
not being used. The built-in flash automatically pops up the moment the camera is
switched ON. It is ever ready to fire each time the Prima Super 90W detects low-light
shooting conditions. Even if the Autoflash mode has been disabled, the pop-up readiness
stays as it is.
The camera's Command Dial is built around the LCD panel. It has modes ranging from
Personal, Real-Time (RT) shooting, Spot metering, Auto and three PIC variations of
Slow-sync Flash, Portrait and Close-up. The bottom two photos from above were shot
via the Close-up PIC variation. Real-Time is great for shooting subject matters within
a very short shutter time-lag while Spot metering is for use when you want both the
focus point and metering sensitivity to be at the center of the viewfinder area.
For most subject matters, the standard metering is good in getting the correct exposure.
Personal is for setting a set of personalized Custom Functions.
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