[Leica] Olympus XA (OT)

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I think a high quality camera is a Leica M which cost 7000 bucks.
I think an small format fui X-100 selling for $829 is not what I'd call "a
high quality camera". Its a nice prosumer camera.
I think a RX1 which is not small frame and cost $2,800 is  "a high quality
camera"

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: jon streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:29:22 -0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT)
> 
> I can relate to the fondness that one can "develop" for a small 
> high-quality
> camera.  I've gotten very attached to my X-100 .
> 
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
> 
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwm.edu>
> To: "lug" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT)
> Date: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 8:10 pm
> 
> 
> 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.h
> tml>
> 
> 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.h
> tml>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Candids/Heels_AMR.jpg.ht
> ml>
> 
> 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
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