{"id":5525,"date":"2012-05-19T08:44:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2012-05-19T08:44:20","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T15:44:20","slug":"canon-prima-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=5525","title":{"rendered":"Canon Prima Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my ongoing persuit of small film cameras with wide angle lenses I’ve found another, the Canon Prima Mini.\u00a0 While slightly larger than the Pentax UC-1 it too has a 32mm f3.5 lens, but is it up to the task of replacing the Pentax?<\/p>\n

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While the various shooting modes of the Pentax UC-1 can be selected prior to taking a picture the limited control of the Canon must be done during the exposure.\u00a0 And that control is limited to overriding the automatic control of the flash either on or off by holding down one of the two flash buttons on the side of the camera.\u00a0 These buttons take a fair amount of sideways pressure which isn’t a great idea for holding things steady, besides the fact that there is no feedback from the camera as to the effect they will have.\u00a0 The flash on button covers both fill, slow speed sync and red eye reduction delay override, depending on the situation but you won’t know that only the camera knows and it’s not telling.<\/p>\n

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Canon gives a specification for the lens of being 3 elements in 3 groups which to me sounds not so groupish and more 3 elmentish.\u00a0 That’s a pretty simple lens but most distortion can be corrected with those three elements.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 So you can probably tell from the tone of my writing that I haven’t\u00a0declared this\u00a0camera to be the successor to my Pentax UC-1 and you would be right.\u00a0 It did\u00a0do a decent job\u00a0and does have that 32mm focal length lens but it’s lack of control really limit it’s use to snap shottery.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the images from this camera, having found out though that this camera also came in white I am sure that would be a better performing and I must seek it out (not really but I’d rather have it in white).<\/p>\n\n\t\t