Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net>wrote: >Reading early releases on Sony's forthcoming ultrapremium-priced non-SLR >non-interchangeable, non-zoom-lens finderless full-frame digicam, >the RX1, >I couldn't help but think about its nearest film equivalent, and one of my >favorite past cameras, the little Oly XA. I'll bet a lot of >LUGgers past a >certain age used this little gem. How many of you still have yours? Use it? ====================================================================================================== I've got two, and one is loaded with Tri-X right now. My first one was bought used from a photojournalist friend who used it clandestinely in Poland during the Solidarity movement around 1980. She was on a leave of absence there at the time, and found her Nikons were too visible to safely use during demonstrations, but the XA was easy to conceal from the authorities. She got friends to smuggle her film out of Poland and the photos were published in the Milwaukee Journal anonymously. I used this XA to shoot what is probably one of my five all-time favorite pictures: <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Color/Solitude_AMR.jpg.html> I'm very fond of the XA. It's so tiny and quiet for situations like these: <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Travel/Art_Man_AMR.jpg.html> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Candids/Heels_AMR.jpg.html> Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Relations University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt