Kosmo Photo Trip 35 Review

Really nice Olympus Trip 35 review by Kosmo Photo, just click RIGHT HERE, or on the screen grab below. Whatever floats your boat. 😃

Classic Ads: Olympus Trip starring Eric Idle, James Hunt, David Bailey

Olympus Trip 35 Advert with David Bailey

HTMLised version of the Olympus Trip 35 manual.

This is kinda handy, an HTML (website) version of the Olympus Trip 35 manual! CLICK HERE!

Olympus Trip 35 Hero Shot

I haven't been able to use my Olympus Trip 35 for over a year now just simply because I cannot find anywhere in Southern Sweden to process film. If anybody knows of a good lab please let me know, I really miss shooting my Trip... but at least I can shoot pictures of my Trip!

Here is a typical camera "hero" shot of my beautiful Olympus Trip 35 complete with authentic period Olympus Pen flash attached. The flash has a few small bits missing but that's ok, the pic looks great with it on. ;-)

Tahdah!

Oooooh! Aaaah! *Spontaneous applause*

"Why thank you, thank you very much!"

If you have photographs of your own very special Olympus Trip 35 camera, please feel free to send them to me with your name and where you got it, and any other info, like serial number etc. and I will post them right here on the Olympus Trip 35 Cult blog! Promise.

What's on the Menu?

Olympus Trip 35 and Fuji Superia 200 film, developed at local lab and scanned on my CanoScan 5600F.

The Olympus Trip 35 as a Landscape Camera

While the Olympus Trip 35 is not really most photographers "go to" camera for landscapes I think it has done a great job with this waterfall photo. Sharp from front to back and perfectly exposed, not bad at all!

Olympus Trip 35 and Fuji Superia 200 film, developed at local lab and scanned on a CanoScan 5600F.

Dead of Winter with a Cloudy Sky

Did I mention that I really like the Olympus Trip 35?

Olympus Trip 35 and Ilford XP2 Super 400 film.

Grass and Overcast Sky

Olympus Trip 35 and Fuji Superia 200 film, developed at local lab and scanned on my CanoScan 5600F.

Dead Trees - Rietvlei Reserve

Olympus Trip 35 (of course, duh!) and Fuji Superia 200 film, developed at local lab and scanned on my CanoScan 5600F.

Dining Room in Totius House, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Taken with the amazing Olympus Trip 35 on Ilford XP2 Super 400 film, developed at local lab and scanned on my CanoScan 5600F. The camera wouldn't let me take the pic because the light was too low, so I took it off auto and set it to f2.8 and voila! Got the photo anyway! I think it looks moody.

President Pretorius Historic House, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Taken with the amazing Olympus Trip 35 on Ilford XP2 Super 400 film, developed at local lab and scanned on my CanoScan 5600F.

Some cool web pages with Trip 35 content!

Very cool Trip 35 photos here: http://bourne.gg/category/olympustrip35/

Trip 35 street photos here: http://www.caughtinthelight.co.uk/index.php?x=browse&category=11

And you can buy or refurbish your Trip 35 here: http://www.streetshooters.co.uk/

If you have anymore links for me just let me know and I'll post them here!

Keep "Tripping"!

Secret Film Development Process (Involves a Trip 35)

I have been working on a new top secret film developing process which I shall now explain for the more technically minded among you. Please keep it to yourself because if this gets out then everybody is going to be doing it and it won't be unique, or secret, any longer.

Here it is step by step:

1.) Acquire any old 35mm film camera (cheap because nobody wants them any more) I used a Trip 35, but this process should work equally well with other types/brands too.

2.) Find some heavily expired, discontinued slide, E6, film. It's even better if it has been hand rolled into a C41 negative film canister. For the purposes of this scientific, photographic research I used Kodachrome 64, hand rolled into a 200 ISO Agfa negative film canister.

3.) Load said film into purchased camera.

4.) Find a subject and shoot it.

5.) Take film out of camera.

6.) This step is very important. Take film to local film development lab and hand it in without telling them what the film really is. They should just stick it through the regular C41 machine and press "go", or whatever it is they do back there that got so expensive to do in the last ten years.

7.) When you go to pick up the film they will think the film is ruined and they might not charge you for the development. Make sure you take the film home anyway, don't be a sucker.

8.) Scan your film as negative film.

9.) Mess with the resultant images in the GIMP/Photoshop/Paintshop Pro, etc. until it looks kinda old and groovy like the samples below.

10.) Post them on-line for all to see and claim that you have discovered a new top secret process for developing film.

What are you doing here reading this blog post, get out now and go have some fun! GO!

This post is also on my other blog here.

Empty Deck

Taken on XP2 Super 400, scanned on a CanoScan 5600F, edited with the GIMP.

Victor's new baby!

Hello Lanthus,

Attached is a portrait of my newly acquired Trip 35. I've only run one roll through so far but based on those images, I believe it's going to be well-suited to street photography. With that in mind, I posed it atop my copy of HCB's Photographer monograph. I hope the pic is suitable for your most excellent Trip 35 Cult page. Here's the link to my blog http://leicadiary.blogspot.com/

Cheers!

Peace,

Victor

http://victoranthony.ca

Congratulations Victor, it looks like a beauty! Hope to see some pics from it soon.

Green Chair

Olympus Trip 35 and very expired but frozen for years Kodak Ektachrome 64, scanned on a CanonScan 5600F, cropped on the left a bit in the GIMP.

Fish and Chips

Olympus Trip 35 and very expired but frozen for years Kodak Ektachrome 64, scanned on a CanoScan 5600F, edited in the GIMP.

Contribution from John!

Saw your blog, mine is at http://vulcan-bomber.blogspot.com/

You asked for photos.  This was taken in Mons in Belgium a year or so ago with my Trip on FP4 film, not long after lunch and I think it was around September time.

Cheers
John

There are a lot of people who like to use the Trip 35 for street photography because it is small, quick to use "shooting from the hip" and is very quiet! Nice photo John, really a worthy show-piece of what the Olympus Trip 35 can do!

Sharp, Sharp, Sharp!

The Zuiko 40mm f2.8 lens on the Trip is just incredible! If Olympus would make a digital version of the Trip 35 today, complete with 40mm f2.8 lens, and with a full frame sensor they would make a killing! I would look at maybe buying one, price permitting. And why can't they? The lens covers standard 35mm film, so it's just the internals that would take some figuring out! Simple huh!? Man, I should work for Olympus...