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  • I see, still confused tho!
    I like film and I use a pentax ME super, compact and loads of control
    but the XA's always appealed to me. I guess Im gonna have to get one and find out!
    cheers for the advice.

    What you might find is people get VERY confused between the full fat XA and the XA1, as some/most(?) XA1's just have 'XA' printed on them. As soon as you see the two side by side, they barely resemble each other, only the black plastic clamshell is vaguely similar.

    The XA1 is the XA shaped olympus trip, it has the poorest lens, selenium cell metering, I think just two shutter speeds (1/60th and 1/250th?) and variable shutter controlled by the selenium, i..e the simplest 35mm camera.
    The full XA is a full ap priority/manual fixed lens RF, with numerous neat features.
    XA1 £5-15
    XA2/3/4 £15-40
    XA £20-100

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