A Blue XA2 now enters my XA Family

[lxmike]

Well my addiction to the Olympus XA camera series now has a bit of colour added. To go along side my Olympus XA, XA2 and XA4 is a not so common XA2 in blue. Below is the ebay photo as listed in the auction. When it arrives I will do a family line up and post the picture here. Managed to pick this little gem up for £24, which I was surprised to get it for that as they can go for much much more

 

[kuvvy]

There's no end to your spending Mike.

 

[lxmike]

There's no end to your spending Mike.

Sssh not so loud Paul, the wife is sitting next to me and might find out I have bought another olympus😀 Thanks for selling me one of your Oly trips by the way, it sits nicely on my shelf now mext to all my other OLYs. Hope you are well mate

best wishes as always

 

[lxmike]

Out of interest does anyone else have a uncommon cloured XA2 varient, if so I would love to see an image of them

 

[kdemas]

Out of interest does anyone else have a uncommon cloured XA2 varient, if so I would love to see an image of them

I almost bought a red one a few weeks back.

 

[lxmike]

I almost bought a red one a few weeks back.

The red ones look really nice, what put you off getting it

 

[Muggins]

Cute in blue!

I have a red one that I was given:

XA2 by gray1720, on Flickr

I must confess that I've yet to really get my head round the three position scale focus, and it's very easy to lose the shutter button as the decisive moment turns into the decisive "oh flip why won't it fire?". Nonetheless I intend to persevere!

Adrian

 

[John Bragg]

Cute in blue!

I have a red one that I was given:

XA2 by gray1720, on Flickr

I must confess that I've yet to really get my head round the three position scale focus, and it's very easy to lose the shutter button as the decisive moment turns into the decisive "oh flip why won't it fire?". Nonetheless I intend to persevere!

Adrian

Zone focus is simple. In good light it is simply the middle setting needed for everything 1.2m to infinity. Landscape setting covers infinity in less than good light, whilst the close settting is 1m to 1.5m for portraits etc.

 

[lxmike]

Cute in blue!

I have a red one that I was given:

XA2 by gray1720, on Flickr

I must confess that I've yet to really get my head round the three position scale focus, and it's very easy to lose the shutter button as the decisive moment turns into the decisive "oh flip why won't it fire?". Nonetheless I intend to persevere!

Adrian

very very nice, racey in red I like that a lot

 

[lxmike]

Zone focus is simple. In good light it is simply the middle setting needed for everything 1.2m to infinity. Landscape setting covers infinity in less than good light, whilst the close settting is 1m to 1.5m for portraits etc.

that sums it up really well

 

[sisser]

Mine came with the red etui.



Nice picture taker.

 

[lxmike]

Mine came with the red etui.



Nice picture taker.

another nice looking XA2 and a super picture taken by it, I love ports and docksides

 

[sisser]

I like your blue one a lot Ixmike. Who wil post the white XA?
Thank you for your kind comment on the picture.

 

[btgc]

This morning I had a thought about colored models (having Konica C35 EF3 in mind, but still) - I'd like they share body and different colors are given to different focal lengths. Red for 28mm, blue for 35mm and white for 50mm. Or vice versa 🙂

 

[David Hughes]

Hi,

Hmmm, Red, White and Blue versions? You wonder what market they were aiming at...

Regards, David

PS then in the 90's the old Russian flag was revived; amazing foresight on the part of Olympus, but what do we expect of them?

 

[btgc]

Hmmm, Red, White and Blue versions? You wonder what market they were aiming at...

So black, red, white and yellow models have a deeper meaning than I thought? And they added blue just to mix cards and make scheme not obvious.

 

[lxmike]

yes its very interesting all the different colours, I have only seen one phograpgh online of the very rare pink XA2

 

[sisser]

PS then in the 90's the old Russian flag was revived; amazing foresight on the part of Olympus, but what do we expect of them?

Yeah and what was their foresight with this one?

 

[lxmike]

Yeah and what was their foresight with this one?

I remeber at the time of its launch this camera got great reviews by the amateur photography magazine

 

[btgc]

I remeber at the time of its launch this camera got great reviews by the amateur photography magazine

As Mju I aka Stylus pre-Epic did, which is a core of this camera.