Antique_Camera_Guy
Olympus Trip 35
This is the "Olympus Trip 35". It is a compact 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Olympus from 1967 to 1984. The Trip 35 proved to be a very popular camera for Olympus, with a long production run of seventeen years and over ten million units sold. The cameras success was primarily due to its excellent build quality ease of use, and affordable price.
For the late 1960s this was a fairly cutting-edge and good quality point-and-shoot camera. The chassis of the camera is made entirely out of metal, giving it a very solid and study feel. The camera also features a four-element Tessar lens system. These high quality lenses allow the camera to produce very sharp images.
Probably the most advanced feature of this camera is the built-in selenium photocell. This allowed an amateur photographer to take pictures by automatically adjusting the shutter speed and aperture for lighting conditions. An interesting thing to note is that this mechanism is powered by the photocell itself, meaning the user never has to worry about batteries.
Over the seventeen year production run very little changed in the camera's design. During the first ten years of production the camera had a maximum film speed setting of 200 ISO. This changed after 1978, when then maximum ISO setting was increased to 400 (the example shown above it a post-1978 model)
A downloadable PDF of the manual for this camera can be found at:
Olympus Trip 35
This is the "Olympus Trip 35". It is a compact 35mm rangefinder camera produced by Olympus from 1967 to 1984. The Trip 35 proved to be a very popular camera for Olympus, with a long production run of seventeen years and over ten million units sold. The cameras success was primarily due to its excellent build quality ease of use, and affordable price.
For the late 1960s this was a fairly cutting-edge and good quality point-and-shoot camera. The chassis of the camera is made entirely out of metal, giving it a very solid and study feel. The camera also features a four-element Tessar lens system. These high quality lenses allow the camera to produce very sharp images.
Probably the most advanced feature of this camera is the built-in selenium photocell. This allowed an amateur photographer to take pictures by automatically adjusting the shutter speed and aperture for lighting conditions. An interesting thing to note is that this mechanism is powered by the photocell itself, meaning the user never has to worry about batteries.
Over the seventeen year production run very little changed in the camera's design. During the first ten years of production the camera had a maximum film speed setting of 200 ISO. This changed after 1978, when then maximum ISO setting was increased to 400 (the example shown above it a post-1978 model)
A downloadable PDF of the manual for this camera can be found at: