Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After the shutter release had got stuck twice and had been repaired at great cost, I threw the camera into the dustbin when it got stuck the third time. Otherwise I liked it ;-) (Never had a problem with any of my M6!) Chris >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 - -- christer almqvist eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58