Somewhere along the line, the red shutter release button on my Olympus XA dropped off.
 
Other than that, my camera is in great shape.
 
Would somebody be willing to sell me a replacement button, maybe from a dead XA camera?
 
It thin

If you can get hold of a duff XA3, the button will fit with a careful bit of grinding away (use a Dremel and a fine tip )you have to shape it on the inside,I have had to do this in the past.
 
  Best of luck.

I made a replacement shutter release button for my XA out of a red plastic lid from a peanut butter jar.  (Flavourite brand, crunchy.)  Just cut it a bit over size and trim to shape until perfect.  Not exactly the right colour, but close enough, and

Badbear, where are you?  I have a dead XA in pieces and I think I could find the button and mail it if you're in the USA. Getting even little XA bits to Europe may be more difficult.  
 
This reminds me that somewhere, probably on this forum,

I have an old Olympus XA but it misses red shutter release button. Does it function without the button, just pressing under its location? I have not tried it yet (I will buy batteries today!)...

Hi again!
 
I bougth new batteries for my XA and I could see that camera works: its meter on finder shows speed, it responds to change on light/ISO/diafragm but I can't fire shutter since button is not good (in fact there isn't button!). I coul

Again...
 
Can I use XA2 button on a XA to fix it? Is it the same red button on both cameras?

Was it you in the Yahoo XA group? If not there was a similar question there. Answer (by an experienced Olympus repairman) was: No, you can't

I used a red guitar pick trimed to fit,and 3M double sided scotch tape to stick