Your Best Xa Photos

Great photos, cjm, particularly ## 2 & 4.

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Naumoski said:
I can't believe the quality of this camera and lens. Simply stunning.
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To tell you the truth, the quality of this camera is mediocre. The components are often prone to failure. The finder patch can hardly be described as bright or punchy. My shutter button sometimes doesn't want to move. The winding-lever doesn't always spin, even when the film is loaded properly. The images it puts out are sometimes described as 'soft'; especially at the edges...

But when it does fire, it almost always produces a picture worth looking twice at.
 
I guess I'm lucky. My XA has seen steady work since it was bought brand-new in 1980 and it's been a trooper ever since that first day.
 
You guys have inspired me, so I bought an Ax on Keh this weekend. Hopefully I'll have it in my hands by Wed.
 
Yeah, the XA isn't a Leica, but a Leica doesn't fit into the front pocket of my jeans, which is why so many of my great shots have been taken with my XA - it was there, and my other (bigger) cameras weren't!

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I just got one of these puppies on Friday and took it out on Sunday morning loaded with a roll of HP5+ to test it out. It's a keeper. :)



 
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