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Re: [OM] XA

Subject: Re: [OM] XA
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2000 23:22:03 +0000
At 20:21 1/8/00 , Ken Norton wrote:
>Is battery consumption with the XA pretty good?  My major gripe with the
>newer P&S cameras is that they suck on batteries like breathmints.

We change the cells in our XA-2 out of fear they are *so* old they will
begin to leak.  Don't know what the drain is, but it's got to be on the
order of the OM-1 or the Rollei 35/T/S.  Bought the XA-2 in '84; it just
started it's third set of cells about six months ago!

You're right about new P&S.  The other half's Stylus 140 eats those
expensive weird looking (Lithium?) batteries.  IMHO it's not the metering
or LCD panel and the meager flash doesn't pull that much; it's the AF, zoom
lens and film wind-rewind *motors* that suck up electrons like black holes.

-- John

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