[rollei_list] Re: OT Olympus XA (was Re: Rolleiflex 35mm Cameras)

  • From: Allen Zak <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:44:44 -0500

My bad, please pardon me. I regret the immoderate language and intended no insult to you. Beauty is, at bottom, a personal call and we are all entitled to our quirks ;-)


Allen Zak

On Nov 13, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Eric Goldstein wrote:

Hey, talk about calling someone's baby ugly! I shoot Dianas and
Holgas... without rangefinders! :-)


Eric Goldstein

--

On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Allen Zak <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Oh no, I don't think you are a buzzkill for pointing out the XA's
limitations.  It just happens that for me, at that time and sensibility, this was an almost perfect visual notebook/image maker, complete to its marginal lens performance, in much the same way some photographers took to results provided by the Diana, another camera in vogue at the time, the difference being that wretched bit of plastic had no justification for its
existence except as a poseur's prop.  But I could be mistaken.

Allen Zak
---
Rollei List

- Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

- Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe'
in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org

- Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org

- Online, searchable archives are available at
//www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list


---
Rollei List

- Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

- Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe'
in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org

- Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org

- Online, searchable archives are available at
//www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list

Other related posts: