Hi Godfrey have you really used an Oly XA? I can not see the limitations you mentioned with that Olympus series and I made some great shots with the original XA and now with the XA4 macro. I miss the manual F-stop setting on the XA4 macro of course, you can only set a distance zone and the camera does the rest and you can not underexpose. The first and original XA let's you control all that. The design of the XA series is one of the best and most beautiful ever for me (beside the bulky flash).
greetings Markus > >>Like all the automated compact cameras I've owned, regardless of >>whether they were film or digital capture, I ultimately find them too >>limiting due to responsiveness constraints of shutter lag and >>exposure systems, and the controls are awkward due to poor >>ergonomics. My personal favorite pocket sized compact cameras have >>been the Rollei 35S, Minox 35GT-E and several of the Minox >>subminiatures, as they leave me in control, are as responsive as any >>SLR, and don't get in the way of taking photographs. >> >>Godfrey >>
