{"id":23000,"date":"2007-02-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/olympus-xa-is-fun\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T06:00:00","slug":"olympus-xa-is-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/olympus-xa-is-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympus XA is Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/barron\/387520281\/in\/set-72157594393519542\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/blog_images\/20070213_film.jpg\" border=\"1\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" ><\/a><\/center><br \/> A few months ago I bought an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diaxa.com\/xa\/xastart.htm\">Olympus XA<\/a> off of eBay, and I totally love it. It&#8217;s a compact rangefinder type 35mm film camera, is really small, has a quiet shutter, and takes wonderful photos. Consequently, it&#8217;s got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/olympusxa\/\">pretty large following<\/a>. What I like most about it is the vignetting at f\/2.8. Plus the quality of film images is superior IMO to digital. I am using some discontinued Konica-Minolta (I still love Minolta!) <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.konicaminolta.com\/products\/films\/vxsuper400\/Introduction.html\">VX 400 film<\/a>, which I found at a local camera store. I can&#8217;t find it anymore, so I will switch to Fujifilm for my next roll. Take a look at my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/barron\/sets\/72157594393519542\/\">Olympus XA set at Flickr<\/a>, and let me know what  you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I bought an Olympus XA off of eBay, and I totally love it. It&#8217;s a compact rangefinder type 35mm film camera, is really small, has a quiet shutter, and takes wonderful photos. Consequently, it&#8217;s got a pretty large following. What I like most about it is the vignetting at f\/2.8. Plus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/olympus-xa-is-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Olympus XA is Fun<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5YY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}