I recently adopted the camera as a decoration, but aside from needing new batteries it still works. That was actually the reason my dad had for retiring it. The camera had no auto-off and if you left it on the two small watch-type batteries would run out. They were costly to replace, and frankly, they still are. It's a good looking camera though, and there's a part of me that's tempted to buy the batteries and film and test it out. Maybe one of these days I'll actually do it, but I feel like I need a special project to make the effort worth it. Digital is too convenient, and it's spoiled us all.
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I have fond memories of my XE5 that I was given as a gift in 75. I think I took all of 3 bad pictures with it, all my fault, like when you leave the setting for a strobe, but take pix that should be at a faster speed. My favorite was of Niagara Falls at night. They run colored spotlights over the falls. I set it on a concrete post, stopped down to f22 and used a cable release to trip it. Twenty three seconds later the shutter closed. I quit using it when it got stolen in 2002 and I replaced it with a Minolta Z10.
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