Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for posting the XA photos, Alan. I agree with you about Solitude. It'd've been one of my favorites too, if I'd taken it! ?howard On Nov 24, 2012, at 11:10 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote: > 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