Villa de Leyva, August 2022

A trip with the Trip

I shot these with an Olympus Trip 35 I had found for very cheap at the flea market. Aside from a bit of fungus on the objectives I will eventually have to clean out, it looks and feels brand new. It's one of the later models of the Trip 35 as it has a black shutter release button instead of the chrome one used from 1967-1978. I was very nervous to see how these turned out as the camera is fully mechanical and uses no batteries (kind of incredible for a simple point and shoot!), and instead uses a ring of selenium cells as a light meter to select aperture and shutter speed (either 1/40 or 1/200 seconds). It's not got much in the way of letting you control settings, but the shots still turned out very good and I was really surprised. Anyway, I happened to be visiting around the time the town has a kite-flying festival in the town square, and got some nice shots of that. Shot on Fujicolor C200.

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