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View Poll Results: Olympus Trip 35
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10-12-2012
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lxmike is offline
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When I started this thread nearly two years ago I did not realise how popular the trip is
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10-23-2012
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#102
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Over at the Dutch Analog Foto Forum it has attracted a number of followers too. We're busy planning a day-TRIP so to speak 
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10-23-2012
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#103
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr_Flibble
Over at the Dutch Analog Foto Forum it has attracted a number of followers too. We're busy planning a day-TRIP so to speak |
a day TRIP, what a cool idea
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11-14-2012
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#104
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Hey, does anyone know anything about Hanimex compact A, it looks like a Trip 35 ripoff, but I'm wondering if the image quality is on par. It's supposed to look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/inigoelizalde/4953615385/ |
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11-14-2012
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#105
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Quick Trip Tip - the lens cap from a Sony CD Mavica fits perfectly!
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11-14-2012
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That Hanimex looks suspiciously like a Minolta-branded scale-focus that I have (can't remember the model offhand.) |
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11-14-2012
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#107
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawrence Sheperd
That Hanimex looks suspiciously like a Minolta-branded scale-focus that I have (can't remember the model offhand.)
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Can you look into it please, I'd be grateful  . |
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11-14-2012
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#108
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Can you look into it please, I'd be grateful . |
Sure thing! I'll check when I get home from work and include a photo of the Minolta. |
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11-14-2012
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Quote:
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Can you look into it please, I'd be grateful . |
Here's my $.99 Minolta Hi-Matic G2 plastic fantastic (  ) that looks a lot like the Hanimex you referenced although the Minolta has bright-line frame and top-mounted wind lever. Not much info on this, but it's totally automatic exposure (1/200th and ? with f2.8-f22) with a rudimentary control of sorts via the flash guide numbers marked as feet instead of actual aperture value, similar to the Trip. It also needs a 1.3V power source to work.
Sorry for the hasty and blurry photos... 
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11-15-2012
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#110
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I've got a Hanimex 35SP, looks very similar to the A. 38mm f1.4 with built-in flash, though, and no hot shoe. Zone focus, with electric meter which will only tell you by way of an LED if you will underexpose the film.
Simple and cheap, but perfectly capable.
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11-15-2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mystyler
I've got a Hanimex 35SP, looks very similar to the A. 38mm f1.4 with built-in flash, though, and no hot shoe. Zone focus, with electric meter which will only tell you by way of an LED if you will underexpose the film.
Simple and cheap, but perfectly capable.
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I think it's one of the many fix focused cameras with 38mm f/4 lens and a pop up flash of the era. Almost every manufacturer offers such a camera, some with data backs. All are likely produced by Cosina in Japan or Hanimax in Hongkong.
The only scale focus camera with a f/1.4 lens, as far as I know, is the Yashica Half 14 which is a half frame camera. |
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11-15-2012
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Indeed you are correct. In my haste I misread, "f1:4". I have to say, as I was typing my previous response I remember thinking to myself I don't remember the lens being that fast.
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12-23-2012
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#113
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Some of my shots from the Olympus Trip photographer meeting in Ravenstein (December 2012). Light was pretty poor, late in the day.
Film was Lucky 200 Color
Dinner at "t Veerhuis" (forced 1/40th at f/2.8)
And some to fill up the roll
Chemist bottles at a flea market (one's marked Fixer)
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12-24-2012
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#114
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I think I may just have to dig out my old Trip. Although I have no idea where it is. So I may just have to invest in a 'new' one.
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12-24-2012
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#115
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Stay away from Ebay. I've seen outrageous prices being asked for these things! Up to $200.
Get one for 50p from a flea market instead.
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12-26-2012
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#116
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr_Flibble
Stay away from Ebay. I've seen outrageous prices being asked for these things! Up to $200.
Get one for 50p from a flea market instead.
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Good lord, I've seen the prices on the bay. Absolutely ridiculous. Also, I always like to check that the meter actually works, which you can't really do online.
The most I ever paid for a Trip was about £10, and the camera didn't even work. That said, I was actually paying for the original hard case, which I had been looking for for a long time. |
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12-31-2012
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#117
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Worth it!
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