> And now for the bad news. (My specialty)
>
> The XA is Aperture-Priority Auto only. If you have a spot-lit musician
the XA isn't the backup camera for you.
>
> (It does have a Backlight setting to increase the exposure if needed.)
>
> The other bad news is the flash. If you set the camera to "flash" you are
locked into f/4, period. Some people have had good
> results at f/4 while some of us (yo!) have not. The light falls off in
the corners but I've added a diffuser to mine so I don't
> expect that to be a big problem. (No results back yet.)
>
> What I'm saying is there's no flash-matic setting, which would have
leveraged the nice true-rangefinder into perfect flash
> exposures. There's no way to manually set the shutter. Both of these
features are available in much bigger cameras like the
> Minoltas and the Canons of that era for half the money.
I found all these shortcomings in my XA, plus I never particulary liked the
viewfinder. So I sold it, as I favored using my Olympus RC's and Epic w/2.8.
Now I miss it and wish I had it back. I think it is mostly because it was an
Olympus classic, and maybe for the reason below.
Wayne
>
> You can't put a Hi-Matic in the pocket of your jeans though. Your pick.
>
> Lama
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