These five images were taken in May 2021 by my trusty little 1976 Olympus Trip 35. A lovely fully automatic, zone focus 35mm compact camera sold between 1968 and 1984. It uses a selenium cell driven mechanical “trapped needle” exposure system. It automatically sets the aperture and one of two shutter speeds (1/40th or 1/200th […]
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5 Frames with a forgotten Olympus Trip 35 on ILFORD XP2 Super (35mm Format / EI 200)
The Olympus Trip was an impulse buy at a car boot sale about twenty years ago. I knew that the auto function didn’t work but I thought I could operate it manually using the aperture settings marked on the ring around the lens.Sadly, I soon discovered that I couldn’t figure out the flash shutter speed […]
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Oly travel twins: The Olympus Trip 35 vs the Olympus XA2 in the field
Both these little cameras get a lot of love and I think they deserve it.
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5 Frames… With ILFORD FP4 PLUS (EI 125 / 35mm format / Olympus Trip 35)
I have owned my Olympus Trip for several decades but have never taken it seriously, until lately.
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5 Frames… With Bergger BRF 400 Plus (EI 400 / 35mm format / Olympus Trip 35)
Last summer I returned to Scotland for the second time in my life. I still keep the negatives of my first time (1985), some irregular Kodak Tri-X rolls but with some great images.
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EMULSIVE interview #161: I am Ante Prskalo and this is why I shoot film
I’m very pleased to be able to bring you the words and pictures of Ante Prskalo, previous contributor to EMULSIVE and dabbler in strange things with Rodinal.
Over to you, Ante!
Hi Ante, what’s this picture, then?
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My Return to Film: Steven J Parkes
My return to film was not a definite decision I made one day, but more of an evolvement of my feeling towards photography.
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EMULSIVE interview #7: I am Lee Fennings and this is why I shoot film
This week I’m sitting down with Lee Fennings, a UK-based digital shooter, now just starting to shoot 35mm with his beautiful reconditioned Olympus Trip 35.
Lee’s a rather strange beast as far as digital street photographers go;
