Olympus XA a Wonderful Little Rangefinder 

This channel is too underated :(

Ayyyyy just bought myself one of these yesterday for my birthday! amazing camera and and equally amazing channel! Keep it up my man!

I sometimes feel like I’ve had 5 bongs after watching your videos..... love it

love ur reviews, not classic boring camera stuff

OIympus X Æ A-12 Musk

Absolutely loved this vid!! Great subject and AWESOME entertainment!! 😀Thank you 🙂

Love it! Great video and love the charisma and humor 👍🏻

Excellent review mate, great channel. I got one for around £4 sadly shutter didn't work, its gone in for repair estimated cost £50 if I can get it done for that happy days, these things are fetching between £200-£250 in UK in perfect condition. BTW watched your channel originally because you did a great review of the lab box, managed to develop 2 rolls now, so easy thanks again, keep em coming :) Tim

I was managing a camera store when the XA first came out and was able to get both it and the A16 flash at an employee discount. It is a fun little camera, but I prefer my Rollei 35S as an all around carry camera. Very good video!

Great video as always man! Especially love that Diner pic. I don’t know how it keeps happening but just a few days ago a friend of mine gifted me an Agfa Optima From the 60s that he found for like 10€. And it still has some Mistery film in it

Had never heard of this lil guy. Great stuff!

Such a good Chanel, great music and editing !

Do you and Grainydays co-ordinate these upload times?

You are very brave to upload a video, the same day that Jason uploads a full Baxter video. BTW, love the photos and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers' porn kinda music from the lates '80s.

XA Hypeeee, but seriously I shot around 40 rolls through this camera since lockdown and I think I need a time out from it. Absolutely amazing camera though

This Thursday has been very good.

I'm your biggest fan 🔥

Yoga Matt! Got me weak lol

how much did you get yours? The condition looks immaculate!

Wow mate, you live in Chinatown? I live in China. 😂😂 I just bought this XA and ready to try. Love your video and keep safe!

I almost got this camera several times, but then I keep getting other things. I guess I'll keep coveting the clamshell.

It's a perfect street film cam. I have the XA and the XA3, XA is better. I'm aways down in Chinatown LA with XA, and other cams. Your photos and video looks so familiar, lol.

Great camera, I have it too. Your exposures are consistently 1/2 to 1 whole stop over-exposed though - you need to set your ISO to a higher number to fool your camera into lowering the exposure.

If I would want a small and compact analog 35mm Kamera, I would choose this one (I actually have one). But I don't shoot 35mm anymore in favor of medium and large format, so I have no use for such a camera and its only sitting on its shelf besides the other four 35mm Kameras I keep for nostalgic reasons (Olympus OM-1, Olympus O-Product, Werra 4 and Exakta Varex IIb).

So the biggest question is... what exactly did you do on Ray Donovan season 6?

I thought about buying one of these from an antiques store, but the shutter was stuck and the previous owner had scratched their name, phone number, and address on it. Besides I love my Konica Auto S2 Rangefinder more. At least you can take pictures of Chinatown without people getting in your shot.

That city you live in... is it based on the one in GTA? (Love the XA, one of my favourite cameras. The lens is spectacular.)(By which I mean very good. In case 'spectacular' is a technical term for some sort of trick lens, which it sounds like it could be.)(Have I commented on this post before? Perhaps. Can't be bothered to scroll down to see. Soz not soz.)

These look pretty overexposed which can happen when you don't use silver oxide batteries...

Ultramax, more like Ultra...to...the...MAX!!

I’ve liked it before watching, I’ve gone and made a coffee, I’ve put the PS4 on for my son and my wife is reading a book...Now it’s me-time motherf*ckers!!! 📸👍

Wow. Your XA looks so clean and snappy compared to mine. Really need to send mine if for a CLA. Also Make sure you are using Silver Oxide batteries. They stabile voltage a lot longer than Alkaline and the meter will be more accurate. Also, on your Ektar roll. Looks like you got some Grain Reticulation. Not sure why in this case but thought you ought to know.

Unpopular opinion but I really don' t like this camera. I've had mine for over a year now and cannot get on using it. The camera is so inconvenient to use due to the small size and the rangefinder is so dim it's almost impossible to focus. I totally understand the hype as it's a tiny rangefinder but it's more I'd rather just carry a larger camera like my QL17 and have a pleasant experience than use the XA. I do however own the XA3 and it's honestly one of my favourite cameras ever so... Cheers for the review Caleb and apologies for the rant!

Should you be named the king of jump cuts?

You sold me 2 cameras so far. Canon EOS 1V Now this.

Thanks for another awesome video. Can you do a tutorial on how to make your hair look like the poo emoji? Please?

Is that a sunglasses case?!

My girlfriend did an online yoga class yesterday and I couldn't stop laughing everytime they said updog

Cindy Lou who’s older brother 😉❤😉

u gotta make more vids broooooo

Jimmy Kneutron.

I only put my second roll of film through the XA I bought over a year ago, because I was testing a lot of others for sale. This one I intended to keep. But anyway… I do not recommend this camera for psychedelic street walking… it’s very small and fiddly to see what is what on the tiny unit, and it is abysmally difficult to focus manually when your eyes are rolling around and there are hundreds of images to try and square up in the small viewfinder. So how those photos end up looking will be quite amusing I think. Anyway I still might have to sell it to pay bills which sucks… why the hell did I look at videos for it because they all just make me want to keep it :(

Captain overexpose strikes again

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Why does your ektar look like THAT lol

I promised myself that I wouldn't buy anything anymore... and you just reactive my GAS with this video. I DON'T THANK YOU (in fact my wife don't thank you.. i do)

You should do giveaway .. to me!

photography is like drugs. it ruins your life and your budget, but you can't live without it

The XA has one of the largest fanboy followings of any camera. For those who actually try to use it as their primary camera, the reality of its many shortcomings dawns quickly. One interesting historical feature of the camera is that a few years after being discontinued, its used price at around $50 inflated to nearly $200 with the same sort of excessive comments it tends to get these days. Used dealers were paying $150 to resell in the US and Japan for $250. After 2 years, reality arrived and the market price fell back to about $75, leaving one of the biggest market losses ever suffered by the used camera industry. I've no idea what the market price is today, but IMO paying more than $50 is foolish. That's what I paid for mine with case and flash. I never use it because the lens isn't good for more than shapshot prints and scanned computer images, and I don't use either. If you think the XA is a great camera, put your money where your mouth is, say a couple of hundred.

Too annoyed by the forced attempt at humour, to watch this long enough to find anything out about the camera. You know that noise when someone scrapes their knife back and forth over their plate........yeah........that's this!