I'm still trying to get caught up with my scans for March, but its probably time to check in on our April theme.

We had discussed doing compact "point-and-shoot" cameras for April. But I don't know how much luck we've all had procuring a working point and shoot. Mine was supposed to be delivered last week, but instead of going to NM, it ended up in Idaho. Today it is in Virginia. Tomorrow, who knows? I can fall back to my Olympus XA, but its not exactly a point-and-shoot as its manual focus.

I don't know if others are set and ready with a point-and-shoot in hand, or if you're having challenges too. Ultimately, we can still change our mind on the April theme.

I'm happy to join in for the p&s theme, but I'll use an slr in P mode to avoid buying more stuff. Namely, the program plus with either a FA 35/2 or FA43/2 lens, aperture rings set to A. Hope this fits

And just to suggest an alternative to p&s, how about a sunny 16 challenge (guess exposure)? If you only have cameras with a meter, just ignore it, decide on exposure before you look at the meter if the camera won't operate without batteries. What I posted in week 3 of March, I shot with sunny 16 and it's always rewarding to see that anything came out of it at all.

I’d say get as close as you can to the idea of point and shoot. Our ranks are skimpy at the moment (I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been sick) so I don’t want to run anyone off by getting too anal about the rules. However, if you drop by your local thrift store, you might find a crappy point and shoot for less than the roll of film you put in it. I got an IQZoom 70XL that seems to be working to my surprise. I don’t exactly like it, or like shooting it, but that’s the challenge.

A Sunny 16 challenge would be fun. I have a Pentax SV that I shoot without a meter to learn to guess exposure, and a number of other meterless cameras (including a pre-war Voigtlander Bessa 6x9 folder with scale focusing.)

I wanted to post that I’ve shot and developed three rolls, but I’ve been sick. I haven’t had energy to set up for digitizing. Hopefully soon, but I’m still fighting this bug.