This spring, I acquired a little compact camera, a used Olympus XA from the 70s. Owning a rather extensive collection of cameras, I had always felt like something was missing. A good camera for tagging along, small, film, uncomplicated but not without possibilities for manual adjustments. As someone shooting a lot of large format, for your free time you really every so often just want something small.

One day my classmate Dan came into school with this tiny black aperture priority, manual focus 35mm his Dad had passed on to him, and I knew I was home! Or something like that. A little Swedish Ebay later, an Olympus XA was mine.

It´s ideal, really fun to bring and use. I photojournaled the whole summer, and thought it would be nice to continue doing so on a blog. Since I have lots of summer pictures and notes to share, I will backdate those posts, and continue until we arrive in the present and the future.

The pictures are from the first roll of film, a visit to Germany over Easter & the street I grew up in.