Olympus XA
The Olympus XA is a fantastic little rangefinder if your willing to live within its limits. Those limits are primarily the tiny focus lever and its aperture priority with minimal over rides. At it’s heart is the 35mm f2.8 six element lens that produces sharp images from corner to corner despite how close the design requires it to be to the film. The rounded edges and clam shell lens cover make it a joy to hold in the hand or slip into a pocket. The XA is really one of the iconic cameras of the 1980’s and rightly so. The camera is also incredibly quiet with only a small ‘snick’ of a shutter sound and no motor noises with it’s thumbwheel film advance.
