Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1992/10/07

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To: Darrell Raymond <drraymon@daisy.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: Nice RFs
From: James J Dempsey <jjd@spserv.bbn.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 92 15:43:54 EDT
Cc: leica-users

Darrell says:
> Jeff says:
> >I have used all of these, and also an Olympus XA, which is cute but has a very
> >disappointing lens--I get sharper pictures by guess-focusing a Minox 35GT
> >than by using the RF on the XA
> 
>   Glad to hear someone else thinks so.  Some of the dialogue in rec.photo
> would have you believe that the XA was a great optical instrument.  I
> haven't used one recently, but it certainly was poor when it first came 
> out.  The Minox was much better. 

Perhaps they are variable in quality or maybe subject to misalignment
if dropped.  My wife had an XA which I used pretty frequently.  I
thought the pictures were very sharp; better than most every pocket
camera of its day.  No Leica, but still quite sharp.

		--Jim Dempsey--
		jjd@bbn.com

In reply to: Message from Darrell Raymond <drraymon@daisy.uwaterloo.ca> (Re: Nice RFs)