Nick I'd be happy to see any and all of your bike touring photos you haven't shared, they are great. The Olympus XA and I didn't get along. The weird electronic shutter button (barely a button) just couldn't seam to recognize my finger so after wasting few rolls of film where if I was lucky enough to get the button to work it was a second or two after I wanted to take the photo and probably the 3rd or 5th time I pressed it so focus and composition were lost, I moved on. I'm truly impressed that you nailed that photo above with the same camera. I'm sure the difference in nearly 35 years can explain the fussy shutter button.
On Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 5:34:19 PM UTC-4 Nick Payne wrote: > On Wednesday 5 June 2024 at 1:44:32 am UTC+10 jamin orrall wrote: > > Nick, did you use the Olympus xa for those 80's tour photos or something > else? > > > All the B&W photos in the album up to the first colour image would have > been taken with the XA. The two colour images and the B&W images following > on from there were taken with a Plaubel Makina 67, a considerably larger > and heavier 120 rollfilm camera that shot ten 6x7 images on each roll of > 120 film. > > Prior to the appearance of the Olympus XA in about 1980, I took most of my > cycling photos with a Rollei 35. When the XA came along, I grabbed one > because a) you didn't have to extend the lens before taking a photo, just > slide the clamshell cover sideways to uncover the lens, which meant the > camera was quicker and easier to use, and b) it had a rangefinder for > focusing, unlike the Rollei where setting the focus was guesstimation. With > the Olympus, I could actually take the camera out, take a photo, and put > the camera away again while still riding along, as with this image: > [image: Scan-110317-0070.jpg] > > Nick Payne > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d97a5d03-6170-4e23-b0fc-aee1e54c8951n%40googlegroups.com.
