Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gary Todoroff wrote: > > Since Bill Larsen just reminded us: "There used to be a lot of talk about > rangefinder cameras (which is the charter of the list --- not Leica in > general). . . " > I bought a little Olympus XA at a garage sale yesterday - what a cutie. > Everything seems to work, and the rangefinder is bright. The aperture > priority adjustment looks simple and lets you decide whether depth of field > is important instead of the usual P&S auto everything. With a 35mm f2.8 lens > and an extremely quiet shutter, this could be a fun camera. I hope to run a > roll through it in the next day or two. Anybody have any thoughts or > experience re the XA? > > Thanks, > Gary Todoroff > Tree LUGger I prefer my Rollei 35 despite the fact that weighs twice what my XA does. The XA vignettes like a son of a gun. Mark Rabiner