Evening with the XA2

And here’s one more from the first roll shot with the Olympus XA2 (on Kodak Portra 400 film). The setting sun showing rather dramatically through the screen porch just begged me to take a shot.  Of course with the XA2 there is no setting anything. Just compose the shot and push the shutter. The camera does everything else – and very well I might add.

I think it’s amazing that I actually bought a 25+ year old camera online from Goodwill, put new batteries in it, a roll of film, and took a roll full of perfectly exposed pictures. This would tend to confirm comments from other sources indicating that all of the XA series cameras have proven to be very well designed and built cameras.  The fact that there are so many of them still around and taking pictures also supports this claim. It also makes one wonder how many of today’s digital cameras will still be taking pictures 25 or 30 years from now.