Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA rangefinder
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 22:34:48 -0700

Gary Todoroff wrote:
> 
> Since Bill Larsen just reminded us: "There used to be a lot of talk about
> rangefinder cameras (which is the charter of the list --- not Leica in
> general). . . "
> I bought a little Olympus XA at a garage sale yesterday - what a cutie.
> Everything seems to work, and the rangefinder is bright. The aperture
> priority adjustment looks simple and lets you decide whether depth of field
> is important instead of the usual P&S auto everything. With a 35mm f2.8 lens
> and an extremely quiet shutter, this could be a fun camera. I hope to run a
> roll through it in the next day or two. Anybody have any thoughts or
> experience re the XA?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gary Todoroff
> Tree LUGger

I prefer my Rollei 35 despite the fact that weighs twice what my XA does. The XA
vignettes like a son of a gun.
Mark Rabiner