Rollei Prego 140
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| images by Alan Yahnke (Image rights) |
The Prego 140 is a compact autofocus 35 mm camera made by Rollei. It has an HFT-coated 38-140 mm f/4.6 - 12.2 Vario-Apogon zoom lens. There is an LCD screen on the top of the camera, and most settings are selected with buttons arranged behind this, along the rear edge of the camera top housing.
Many of the Prego 140's features are similar to the Prego 90: it has infra-red autofocus, with an autofocus lock feature, and a button to force infinity focus. Exposure is automatic: the shutter speed is between 1/3 and 1/400 second.
It offers the 13×36 mm panorama format. Film advance and rewind are automatic and motorised. The film speed is set automatically using DX codes between ISO 50 and 3200. The buttons on the camera (shown in the Flickr set linked below) suggest that the Prego 140 has a date-imprint function, the same 'Snap' mode as the 90 (in which the focus is fixed to give depth of field between 1 and 13 metres, to avoid missed pictures due to focusing), and the interval mode, in which the camera can be set to make exposures unattended at fixed intervals (between ten seconds and an hour on the 90).
The zoom is controlled with a rocker switch rather than the separate wide and tele buttons of the Prego 90. The flash has the functions usual on a compact camera of this type: a red-eye reduction feature, forced fill-in flash, and an option to disable the flash.
