{"id":502,"date":"2009-11-19T03:55:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=502"},"modified":"2010-04-18T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T22:10:55","slug":"olympus-xa2-almost-a-casualty-of-craigslist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Olympus XA2, almost a casualty of Craigslist."},"content":{"rendered":"

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If it were not for the difficulty in coordinating meeting up with others for Craigslist sales I would no longer have this camera.\u00a0 You see I also have what is considered the more desirable XA which is a rangefinder rather than zone focusing and has a F2.8 lens instead of the XA2’s slower f3.5\u00a0 and is also aperture priority relative to the XA2’s fully automatic.\u00a0 So having the presumably better camera and not wanting to overburden my storage space… in any case the sales didn’t work out and that’s alright with me.<\/p>\n

There is something sublime in taking pictures where you relinquish control to the camera and just look for images.\u00a0 I don’t mean to say that leaving a modern DSLR on auto everything is a new path to creativity but allowing an analogue circuit designed for one purpose to do it’s job 30 years on is hardly artistic capitulation.\u00a0 No but a camera that has a Robert Frank or a Jeff Wall mode that would hasten the end of photography.<\/p>\n

“Variations,4 for 1” and “Arrows, which way do I go?” were shot with this camera and here are some other shots from that roll.<\/p>\n\n\t\t