Olympus Trip 35.

Another day with little time for Blipping, hence another boring old camera. The problem of what to do with old cameras that are no longer of any use or value must be very common. This model’s main claims to fame are that David Bailey advertised it and it does't need batteries.

The name "Trip" refers to the fact that it was designed as a point-and-shoot holiday camera, that was way back in the mid 1960s. It was produced from 1967 to 1984 and, although I can remember us buying this one in a shop in Park Street, Bristol, I have no idea when or why we did so; I can only guess that we'd travelled light to Bristle by motor-bike and so had left our battery of Practika SLRs in Mbra, that was a probably in the late 70s.

It's a curious camera capable of taking good pictures, as one would expect from Olympus, but I couldn't lay my hands on a photo that I knew this camera had taken. It has automatic exposure, apart from when set to flash when you set the aperture (which in turn sets the speed to 1/40), On auto it chooses a shutter speed of 1/40 or 1/200 and then an aperture from a range of f:2.8 to f:22, adequate for outside pictures using the films available at the time.

The focal length of 40mm is a modest wide angle aimed at reducing the overall size and landscapes.

This one was manufactured in 1973.