Canon IXUS Z90
The Canon IXUS Z90 is a compact APS film camera, introduced by Canon in July 1996.
Compared to the other IXUS cameras, it is large and heavy. It has a circular lens cover, which hinges up to open, and houses the main flashgun and a smaller flashgun for red eye reduction. The back has an LCD panel for settings display, a covered section for the date and title setting buttons, a "best shot selector" dial, along with the zoom control, viewfinder and mid-roll film rewind button.
The lens has 4x zoom, from 22.5-90mm with a maximum aperture of f5.6-8.9. The viewfinder has automatic parallax correction and dioptric correction.
The IXUS name was used in Europe; in America, it was called the ELPH 490Z, and in Japan, IXY G. In 1997 a version called IXY GE was made available. It is nearly identical to the regular version but now include eye control focusing.
Power comes from two CR2 3v batteries.
ELPH 490Z image by Matt Phillips (Image rights) |