Sorry about the framing, I was rushed.ĪHA! The Olympus Trip 35 is sharper, since the 17-40mm got a little softer in the corner and the Olympus' sharpness stayed as high as it was in the center. Roll mouse over to compare to 100% crop from 5D image (13MP). I could have applied NR to the film image, but to keep things as unfair as possible in favor of digital, I didn't.Ĭrop from top right. Worse for the Olympus Trip 35 film image, I see that it has a weird diamond-shaped character to the noise, implying that the 3k x 2k resolution files I got on my CD were upsampled in the scanner before I got them. The 5D image seems cleaner due in part to noise reduction which smoothes over much of the image except for edges leading to a cartoonish effect, while the film image has no NR applied. OK, so the $2,500 5D and $700 17-40mm lens is a little bit sharper than a 29¢ Costco scan from print film, in the center.
Roll mouse over to compare to Canon 5D.Ĭriminy! Considering I made these snaps on the way out to church with the wife yelling at me to hurry up, except for the slightly different framing and slightly different magnification with both cameras at 40mm, it's astounding how closely the tones and colors match.Ĭrop from center right.
(Prints not used here, just the scans on CD.) I had the print film developed, printed at 5x7" and scanned to CD for only $9, total, in an hour.
Here's a shot from my first try-out roll of ISO 400 Fuji Superia X-TRA print film ($1 per roll at Costco with coupon). Of course if we compared optical prints it would be much fairer to the Olympus, since what you see here is greatly veiling what the Olympus can do. To handicap the Olympus, let's compare these in the digital domain, and let's shoot crappy print film and use only a 29¢ scan from Costco instead of shooting Fuji Velvia with a drum scan. I used my best Canon 17-40mm f/4L at 40mm to match the Olympus. The BS stops when the green flag drops, so let's go whole hog and compare my $5 Olympus Trip 35 to my best-image-quality digital camera, my Canon 5D. Exposures on my first roll of slide film seem remarkably accurate! Seems to see a broader area than just the subject, so itĪutomatically compensates for subjects lighter or darker than I also shot a roll of Velvia, which looked looked great and super-sharp, too. Looking at the LCD after each shot, no viewfinder blackout, no nothing - just great photos. Waiting for AF, no WB setting, no battery charging, no wasting time Set it to A and shoot, not worrying about anything. Is great, in some ways better than the best digital cameras. (390.5g), measured, naked: no film or strap. If exposure would go below 1/40 at f/2.8, the shutter locks and a red transparent flag rises from the bottom of the finder in A setting. Uniquely weird size deliberately chosen by Olympus to try to force you to buy their own brand of filters. Third stops from ASA 25 - 400, except ASA 32. Note: if you chose a large aperture for flash and work in bright light, it stops down accordingly but keeps the shutter speed at 1/40.ĮV 8-1/3 (1/40 at f/2.8) to EV 17-1/6 (1/200 at f/27).
Program automatic (A) and fixed-aperture for flash. (automatically incorporates any filter factors.) Standard socket in shutter release button. Two bladed, diamond-shaped, stopping down to about f/22.ġ/40 or 1/200, automatically selected. Bottom scale calibrated in meters and feet.Īppears to be a front-element focusing Tessar. Top scale, visible through finder, shows icons or headshot (1m/3'), twoshot (1.5m/5'), group shot (3m/10') and infinity.
Manual by scale, visible through viewfinder. The ridged window to the right of the finder window is fake, mimicking a rangefinder.
Trick peephole to see exposure and focus settings as set on lens. The examples below are from one 24-exposure test roll of ISO 400 print film. Its light meter and programmed automatic exposure system is solar powered! This makes it one of the world's most advanced cameras which provides fully automatic exposure completely without batteries or external electrical power. The Olympus Trip 35 operates completely without batteries.
This one's date code says it was made in 1974. I bought this particular sample at a thrift shop for $5 on 7/7/7 with a dented filter ring. It was, and still is, an inexpensive, lightweight camera with few adjustments. Olympus made over 10,000,000 of them through 1988. This is a fully automatic exposure 35mm film camera introduced in 1968. Intro Specifications Performance User's Guide Recommendations More