Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thing is the half frame compacts were few and not that small. The Rollei 35 and XA were both way smaller than any half frame camera I ever saw. They had died out completely a bit before. So the Rollei 35 and XA were not competing against half frame camera's People got used to the idea you got full body results from a tiny camera. Unfortuanly when the tiny digital cameras came out they thought that too. And now with the RX1 they are right. They can I'm sure get monster DSLR camera results with a body which fits in their jeans pocket. This will be a great boom to photography I feel strongly. In this months PDN the RX1 is being called the compact a Pro would want. Problem is they said that about compacts with smaller sensors. But I don't think they wont be saying that any more. And the problem is these full frame ultra compacts are going to cost some real money. Not a casual buy. Do I want a D600 or a RX1? I honestly now don't know. I can see the RX1 doing as much for me as the full bodied mountain grown D600. With me still using my D700 with all my glass I've got for it starting back from the 1970's. Leica needs to make a full frame digital camera the size of a IIIF. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:10:27 -0600 (CST) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Olympus XA (OT) > > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net>wrote: > >> Reading early releases on Sony's forthcoming ultrapremium-priced non-SLR >> non-interchangeable, non-zoom-lens finderless full-frame digicam, >the >> RX1, I >> couldn't help but think about its nearest film equivalent, and one of my >> favorite past cameras, the little Oly XA. I'll bet a lot of >LUGgers past >> a >> certain age used this little gem. How many of you still have yours? Use >> it? > ============================================================================== > ======================== > I've got two, and one is loaded with Tri-X right now. > > My first one was bought used from a photojournalist friend who used it > clandestinely in Poland during the Solidarity movement around 1980. She > was > on a leave of absence there at the time, and found her Nikons were too > visible > to safely use during demonstrations, but the XA was easy to conceal from > the > authorities. She got friends to smuggle her film out of Poland and the > photos > were published in the Milwaukee Journal anonymously. > > I used this XA to shoot what is probably one of my five all-time favorite > pictures: > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Color/Solitude_AMR.jpg.h > tml> > > I'm very fond of the XA. It's so tiny and quiet for situations like these: > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Travel/Art_Man_AMR.jpg.h > tml> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Candids/Heels_AMR.jpg.ht > ml> > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > UPAA POY 1978 > University Relations > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information