Meet the latest addition to our collection of old cameras. The Olympus Trip 35. Scotts grandparents gave it to us and I think they said it originally belonged to the father of one of their close friends.
It’s a cracking little film camera. Weighty in the hand without being too heavy and well built with a satisfying shutter sound. The beauty of this camera is its simplicity. It doesn’t need batteries and the settings are minimal – enough to set the film speed and focal length. You basically point and shoot.
I shot a test film to get a feel for the camera and check it still worked. Thankfully it did! Here are a few of my favourite photos from the film roll.
This photo from St. Mary’s churchyard in Guildford is a bit creepy. Look at the light streak over that grave!
I’m looking forward to taking more photos with this. Digital photos may be instant, sharp and colourful but there’s something I really like these high contrast, nostalgic looking images. Long live film!
Those shots are beautiful! How nice that your camera still works.
Thanks Jackie 🙂 Hopefully it has many more pictures in it yet…
Oh Gemma, I love these. Such a great anticipation what you will get with film. And these photos are just wonderful!
Thank you Emma! Luckily Boots still do one hour film processing so I don’t have to wait too long to see the results.
LOVE THIS TO BITS. LOVE LOVE LOVE.
Ok I’ll lay off the caps lock for now – but I do LOVE IT.
I need a film camera in my life don’t I?
Tell me I do…
*heads to eBay*
You totally do! But be prepared to spend most of your free time scanning in photos 🙂
Funnily enough i am bidding for this model camera as fancied getting something a bit old skool. We seem to spend ages ageing our images on Instagram it made sense just to take photo’s in a more vintage way.
Where do you get your film from / processed?
Thanks Dave!