[Leica] Olympus XA (OT)

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Its a nice camera the X100 ... pardon me please for hitting too hard the
point and it being a "quality" camera or not. Semantics.
Its a great camera for the person who owns it and is getting great shots
with it.  
urns my head when I pass one on the street. Excellently styled. A super
great camera for the money is my opinion. And a bit of a milestone.

Just bad timing as it was followed so closely by the full frame RX1 so the
honeymoon would have been shortened a bit on its stance on the total playing
field.
That's my opinion. And I think it will reflect many others. Or I'll find out
sooner or not. I just call it as I see it. Sometimes I'm wrong. But I'm
happy about how often I'm right my position is having done serious  and
professional photography for many decades my first darkroom in the mid '60s.

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: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 08:34:14 -0800
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT)
> 
> Maybe I've bonded with my X100 because I don't have an M9.  My bank account
> and I can see where this is going.
> 
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
> 
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT)
> Date: Sat, Nov 24, 2012 11:35 pm
> 
> 
> I have never really bonded with my X100, at high ASA it beats my M9 but in
> good light there is no comparison as far as I am concerned - this is from
> experience rather than reading web sites, unlike some ;-)
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> So, how many images have you made with the X100 since you know so much 
> about
> it?
> 
> Looking in my LR catalog, I see 1497 X100 images. Many of them are in poor
> light, and I would put them against an M9 any time.
> 
> I am going to Paris for a couple of days on Tuesday, and because I need to
> travel ultra-light, I am taking just the X100. I am sacrificing some
> versatility wrt. focal length by doing so, but I am NOT sacrificing any 
> image
> quality.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 25, 2012, at 6:07 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> The 800 dollar camera is in sync with the fact that its sensor is half
>> the size of the RX1.
>> This is the Leica list and we're talking about a high quality camera.
>> Its not a smaller then necessary format camera selling for the price
>> of a Leica lens shade.
>> The Rollei 35 and Olympus XA really could give your SLR quality.
>> If they were half frame cameras they could not.
>> The Fuji is a half frame in effect digital camera.
>> "quality" is not why your buying the camera unless your comparing it
>> against junk point and shoots.
>> And my apologies to those who bought the camera thinking you were
>> buying a piece of top pro gear. But it would not take a genius to
>> figure out a full frame compact was in the wings. And yes they cost real
>> money.
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>> 
> 
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