I hadn’t given my Olympus Trip 35 any exercise in a while, so I got it out and loaded some Kodak Plus-X into it. This film has been expired since February, 2000, but was always stored frozen, so I shot it at box speed. I developed it in HC-110, Dilution B.
The Trip 35 has given me some terrific results on color negative film, and as a result that’s what I’ve tended to shoot in it.
When I loaded the film, I thought this was the first time I’ve shot black-and-white film in it. But looking back through my archives I see that I shot some Ferrania P30 Alpha in it in 2020.
I made these images last November. I loaded up the Trip and took it to work with me, so I could make photos when I took a walk break in the afternoon. I also brought the Trip along from work when I had an appointment on the north side of town.
I was utterly incapable of holding this camera level on this roll of film. Every single image was tilted 10 to 20 degrees. Thankfully, Photoshop fixes that lickety split. But if this were 30 years ago and I had received a stack of tilted prints from the lab, I would have been disappointed.
I still enjoy photographing the area around my office. At some point it will grow stale, I’m sure.
The Trip handled well, as the Trip always does. I’m happy that after all these years, the selenium light meter is still accurate, or at least accurate enough to be within the film’s exposure latitude. My Trip was made in 1977 per its date code.
My office is on the south side of Downtown Indianapolis, which was an industrial area for a very long time. It’s not anymore, not really, as Downtown increasingly becomes about sports and entertainment. But on Downtown’s south side, little bits of its industrial past remain.
This little house is on a dead-end side street behind my office building, which you can see in the background. I wonder what its story is.
Finally, I made a few shots inside my office building. We have enormous windows that let in gobs of light. The beach balls at the beginning of this post were rolling around on the floor next to my desk, so I lined them up and photographed them. This is the window nearest my desk, with a view of what used to be a high school but now is a startup incubator.
I’ve owned my Trip 35 since 2010, making it one of the longest-standing cameras in my collection. Keeping it was a good call.
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