Olympus Trip 35

52 x 36 – A Whole Year of Film – Part One – By Jake Yorath

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Over the course of 2023, I’ve decided I’m going to shoot a roll of film every week. 52 films sounds both like not very much, and yet also an absolutely enormous number. 52 weeks times 36 shots – hence 52×36 – is a rather daunting 1872 images. Of course, 35mm film comes regularly on 24 exposure rolls too, and I also intend to shoot medium format – usually 15 images from a standard 120 roll on my Bronica ETRS – and some instant. Let’s conservatively call it 1200 images.

Olympus Trip 35 on Holiday – Part 1 – Keeping it Simple in New Zealand – by David Hume

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The Olympus Trip 35 is a compact 35mm viewfinder camera released in the late 1960s that sold millions of units and had a long production run. It’s a famous benchmark camera for sure. (A look at the Olympus website is instructive here.)

It was a pretty basic camera in the Olympus lineup and came out after the Pen EES of 1962 that shared the electronic exposure system and before the more advanced Olympus 35DC compact of 1971  (that needed a battery)  and the OM-1 of 1972. Obviously it was spot-on for the time it was made – its sales success attests to that.

My First Two Rolls of Film – HP5+ in a Trip 35 – By Stevenson Gawen

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In many years of amateur (at best) photography, I’ve almost entirely used digital since I started with a compact in 2005 or 2006. But recently I’ve been increasingly keen to try going ‘analogue’. Largely as a result of reading 35mmc, I might add!

I already had a nice Olympus Trip 35. It was a present to me from my parents, a year or two, I think, before I went digital. Back then, the cost of film and development, as well as not really understanding how it worked – at the time I would have been 11 or 12 – meant I didn’t do much with it. It sat in a cupboard for the next 15 years (give or take a few) while I progressed through digital compacts, bridge cameras, and finally to mirrorless where I’ve been for the last decade or so. It doesn’t really seem that long.

5 Frames with the Olympus Trip 35 – by Chantel Wakefield

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Amelia Island is located on Florida’s Atlantic coast, and it has the kind of laid-back vibe anyone would enjoy. I’ve been visiting almost every summer since the mid-2000s.

The Atlantic Ocean gets a lot of flack for being less than magical, and no, the waters aren’t crystal clear like the Gulf of Mexico, but the beaches of Fernandina just do it for me in the best way. They’re not as crowded as more popular, touristy beaches in Florida, and after years of going it feels so comfortable and familiar.

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