Your Best Xa Photos

Here are a few that I took in Slovenia on a blustry winter day around 10 years ago. This is a WW I cemetary containing the graves of Austro-Hungarian solders KIA. My uncle served in the Hungarian cavalry while serving in the Balkans at that time. It was snowing and the wind was blowing, but my XA overcame all of those obstacles and produced some neat pics IMHO!
 
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I like the elegance of this couple. Need to work on the midtone contrast here, though.
 
I've sold my XA, and XA2 and XA3 I've had. I don't know why. I guess it was just plain stupidity.

Today I've bought another XA, after a half a year of not having it. I miss it so much. Now I know that it was my favourite camera - ever. No other piece of gear was that small and that extremely handy.

Can't wait for it to arrive.
 
XA - nepal

XA - nepal

My favourite XA picture must be the one I took in a Nepali temple... invited by the guys, baking flat bread on the holy fire while smoking funny stuff... :eek:


scans-india-4 by aad_b, on Flickr

One of the best aspects of that little rangefinder camera was that you really could bring it anywhere so easily and not feel intrusive. I hitch-hiked the world with it in my pocket.
 
I've run a couple of rolls through an XA2 and really liked the look so I picked up an XA recently. Unfortunately my first roll only yielded a few shots that I liked... I think I need to work with it some more. Here's two that I'm happy with though, the latter using the A16 flash.


Control Panel by eurekaiv, on Flickr


Vintage Cleaning by eurekaiv, on Flickr
 
Here are a few pics taken in the mts. of Slovenia on my XA in the 90's. Great little camera. I've been using them for years and they haven't failed me yet.
 

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More pix! For some reason I'm now able to upload some pictures in my messages.
 

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Now that I'm able to upload some pics in my threads I'll try my luck again to see if they actually do upload. These were all taken in the Southall District of London on a XA2.
 

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Here's a couple more also taken in London on my XA2.
 

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Here's a few taken on my XA2 in Ukraine.
 

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