Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/12

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Two Oldies
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:02:35 -0600
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Thanks, Lluis.  My eldest son bought the XA shortly after he married, but is 
now using only digital.  He passed the XA on to me.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lluis Ripoll" <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Two Oldies


> Jim,
>
> Very nice picture!
>
> I have an Olympus mju, never tested the XA that is still better, but I was 
> very happy with my mju
>
> Cheers
> Lluis
>
>
>
> El 12/01/2013, a las 22:36, Jim Nichols escribi?:
>
>> I received an Olympus XA over the Christmas holidays, and finally got a 
>> roll of film back to see what it could do.  I was concerned about aging 
>> of the cells whitch control the shutter speed display and the shutter. 
>> From rating Kodak 200 color at 200, 400, and 800, all images were usable, 
>> but 400 appeared best.
>>
>> Here, the 1979 XA meets a 1946 Piper Cub, which happens to be the same 
>> Cub that taught me to fly, in 1957.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Piper+Cub+13A.jpg.html
>>
>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
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