Olympus Trip 35..... a sacrilege!

[MiniMoke]

Hi all, I want to introduce you to my recently acquired Trip 35.

This is the most amazing camera for me. I take it with me everywhere I go (at least in the daytime), and the only negative point is that I love holding my cameras with my thumb under the wind lever...... but this baby doesn't have one!

So I found a solution, a thumb grip I bought for my X100 does the job splendidly.

Your comments????

 

[Thardy]

Yeah the thumb grip should really help handling, and it looks good too. One of those might help some of the little Olympus Pens out there.

BTW, is that camera easy to focus? How is the RF patch?

 

[MiniMoke]

The Trip is not a rangefinder, it's a zone focussing camera. Focussing is by guesstimate on the lens barrel which is preset to 1, 1.5, 3 meters and infinity.

It's the ultimate no trouble camera!!

 

[shadowfox]

Very cute!
I didn't realize that the thumb-rest is attached to the hotshoe.
It should improve the handling.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Sacrilege! Think of the added weight! 😉

Actually the grip looks like it was part of the Trip all along in your photo. Should save you some camera shake on 1/40th 🙂

 

[steveniphoto]

one of my favorites. mine needs a repair since the lens wobbles. i think ill just buy another one.

 

[jwicaksana]

My first love in film photography! Great camera, absolutely no hassle, I cleaned and tinkered mine many times, even removed the ball bearing for click stops in focusing, it focused smoothly along the scale after the mod. Enjoy!

 

[kuvvy]

i often thought that the thumb grip would suit the Trip but I never got round to trying it out. Despite the fact i have three Trips I dont use film any more, so these will be up for sale soon. The grip does looks good though.

Paul

 

[OlliL]

one of my favorites. mine needs a repair since the lens wobbles. i think ill just buy another one.

Super easy fixable! 🙂

 

[Prest_400]

Mine (dad's camera) has been up to it's name, being a companion for his trips.
My dad shot Agfachromes in the 70s and 80s, passing to negative film after that and put out of service in the mid 90s and given to some relatives.

The poor thing needs a CLA if it were to be used more as the mechanisms are a bit rough, the diaphragm gets stuck, the finder is dirty... but the camera still works and I did shoot a roll of print film a couple of years ago (when I recovered it). But perhaps we wouldn't be in a better condition after being put on a closet for 15 years.
Because of the rough condition, need of CLA and my bad scale focusing skills (would need practice) it's sitting on my desk.

I know more about it from the film that it shot rather than using the camera itself and it is great. It is even hard to believe that it was shot with such a simple camera.

Heck, I've got an Olympus Pen m4/3 and the design is very reminiscent of it (which in turn was based on the original Pens) even the size is almost the same.

 

[johannielscom]

There's no love form mine, a good working specimen that's for sale in the classifieds, EUR 20...

 

[MiniMoke]

Great hearing all those Trip-stories!

My second one is currently off getting a CLA (twice as expensive as it's value, but well, you know, if you love those things....)

These cameras simply feel right to me, nothing very logical about that, but just the feeling in the hands is somehow right.

Just like the Canonets I have. I love the feel of the 28 and like the QL17 somewhat less. I must have a thing with fully automatic cameras I guess.