The Olympus trip began production in 1967 and ran until 1984. According to Olympus, they sold 10 million of this model in that 17 year period and very few changes were made to it's design! I guess if it aint broke, dont fix it! It really shows how much the world has changed in the last 25 years. Nowadays, cameras have a production run of usually less than a year! This could be put down to a technology moving on a lot quicker but personally I think this is a load of pap! The truth is, it's consumerism, we are bombarded with "new and improved technologies" that make us want to buy the latest thing! The fuji f30 compact digital camera is one of the best cameras of recent times but because it was 'only' 6mp it only lasted a year or so (including the f31fd - basically the same camera with "face detection"). It has been a few years since the f30 came out and even now manufactuers are struggling to beat it for image quality... what a barmy world we live in!
Anyway, enough of the ranting and back to the trip 35.
It's a very simple camera to use, it has a fixed 40mm 2.8 lens with a four position zone focus system. The lens is surrounded by a silenium light meter that, on mine at least, is as accurate as is needed for day to day snaps. It has user selectable iso ratings from 25-400 - allowing a small amount of manual control over exposure if you are that way inclined. It also has an adjustable aperture, single pin hot shoe and sync socket for flash use. Thats the lot! Put the camera on A on the aperture setting and set it to the little red zone focus setting and in good day light with 100-400 iso film it will do the rest, only stopping you from taking a photo when there isnt enough light.
This is my Trip 35
All of these images were taken on ilford hp5 400iso. The first four were taken using a Nikon sb-20 flash.
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