{"id":9913,"date":"2013-10-26T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=9913"},"modified":"2013-10-26T08:40:39","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T15:40:39","slug":"olympus-xa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=9913","title":{"rendered":"Olympus XA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignnone size-full wp-image-10035\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OlympusXA-8558.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10035\" alt=\"OlympusXA-8558\" src=\"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OlympusXA-8558.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OlympusXA-8558.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OlympusXA-8558-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OlympusXA-8558-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the smallest rangefinders you can find, the Olympus XA is a great little carry anywhere camera.  The only drawback is the tiny little focus control and it&#8217;s semi hidden nature makes focusing somewhat fussy.  You can set the aperture and focus in such a way that it works as zone focusing.  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https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OlympusXA_Aug2013_024.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"frame-outer  small attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\"><span><span><span><span><a href='https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?attachment_id=9927'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OlympusXA_Aug2013_027-150x105.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OlympusXA_Aug2013_027-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OlympusXA_Aug2013_027-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/OlympusXA_Aug2013_027.jpg 1000w\" 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The only drawback is the tiny little focus control and it&#8217;s semi hidden nature makes focusing somewhat fussy. You can set the aperture and focus in such a way that it works as zone focusing. At f5.6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,101,109],"class_list":["post-9913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-film","tag-olympus","tag-rangefinder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9913"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10377,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9913\/revisions\/10377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}