Originally posted by Dartmoor Dave It might be worth considering using your ME Super with the M24-35mm/3.5 zoom. It's a very under-rated lens that can be picked up cheaply, not much bigger than a prime, and a great solution for travel photography with film.
The 24-35 was one of my favorite "walk around" lenses on film. I'd combine it with my M85 f2 and have a pretty flexible kit in a very compact form.
Quote: ...my heart says to try the XA for a while, at any price. Owning it is a film photography rite of passage.
These days, an XA is the film camera I carry along with my digitals. Got it loaded with b&w film for shooting candids of family and friends mostly. I got lucky and dug mine out of a box for $1 at a garage sale. I don't think the people even knew what it was. However, I bought my wife an Olympus Infinity Stylus like the one alanvernon recommended. Got it from a Goodwill store for $3, I think. With both of those cameras, all we had to do was put in new batteries and they worked great. For what it's worth, before I got the XA, I used to carry a Canonet QL17. It's a great camera, too, but the XA does everything the Canon does...and in a so much smaller form...that now I rarely use the Canonet. I can close up the XA and stick it in any side pocket of my camera bag.