One of the appeals of shooting film is black and white photography. It’s the other side of the coin for color photos and somehow it tells a slightly different story. There are some really good fine grain films out there such as Kodak Tri-X 400, Ilford Delta 400 Professional, and Fujifilm Neopan 400 Professional. I’ve [...]
Back in March 2011 I started taking photos with my newly acquired Olympus Trip 35 cameras. Since then I’ve taken hundreds of photos with them and even went to China with them. In China I gave one of them to my wife’s cousin and he takes excellent photos with it. I kept the Tripman one [...]
While perusing blog posts about the camera, I came across a really good scan of the Olympus Trip 35 manual on Scribd. I got my manual from Trip Man for “why not?” but the online version is very handy. Click on the view in full screen button to make it really readable. You can also [...]
My playing with film cameras continues! But it’s not out of hand yet. I now have the following film camera equipment: Three Olympus Trip 35 (1 from TripMan) Olympus PS-200 flash Canon Canonet GIII QL17 coupled rangefinder Canon Canolite D flash The kids and I shoot with the Olympus Trip 35s and its great fun. [...]
I took my Olympus Trip 35 on a short stroll this morning and had the film developed near work. I like the results and shot another roll around lunch time. It’s an easy camera to have on you and fits in my coat pocket pretty easily. It’s a little on the heavy side but not [...]
This started with my looking for a good compact digital camera with a viewfinder. As a result I bought a film compact camera that was manufactured in 1972. I prefer cameras with a viewfinder because I take better photos when I hold the camera close to my face (my arms shake). There are several good [...]
