Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA rangefinder
From: John Gong <jgong@cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:04:37 -0700

Yup,

Had the same problem.  Come to think of it, I might never have discovered Leicas if I were still using the XA.  It was a good little camera.


John

At 01:11 PM 08/16/1999 +0000, Christer Almqvist wrote:
>After the shutter release had got stuck twice and had been repaired at
>great cost, I threw the camera into the dustbin when it got stuck the third
>time. Otherwise I liked it   ;-)
>
>(Never had a problem with any of my M6!)
>
>Chris
>
>>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
>
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