The XA is a lot of fun! I bought my first one in the spring of 1980 and after riding around in the faring pocket of my BMW R75/6 for a year, until it rattled apart. The second one met a quicker death when it was in my jacket pocket and it rained the entire two hundred mile round trip from my house in SE Pennsylvania to Pocono Raceway, plus the time we were at the race. After that the next XA rode in the tank bag for a week and a half, two thousand mile trip to Quebec and back. That one survived the big move west and was sold or traded for a long forgotten camera. There were a couple more as accompaniments to the larger format cameras that were the passion at the time. The last one was traded when I moved to a Leica M6 TTL in the early 2000's. They are really fun little cameras and if I still had one, I would send it to you. Hang in there, you'll get one.