photo from week 121 - Olympus Trip 35

Shakespeare's Birthday Parade, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

These are two of the many Shakespeare themed participants in the bard's birthday celebration held in Stratford on Avon.

photo from week 121 - Olympus Trip 35

reflected self-portrait with Olympus Trip 35 camera and B&Q Kids Club cap, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

The Trip is fully automatic, but when set to flash mode, the shutter speed is 1/40th of a second, and the aperture can be set at will. For this indoor shot, I used the flash setting to force the slower shutter speed (the other speed is 1/200th) and set the aperture at f4, to get a little more depth of field than I would have had at full aperture. I used a tape measure to position myself at the closest focussing distance.

photo from week 121 - Olympus Trip 35

Coventry Cathedral ruin and model, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

In the spirit in which the camera was marketed, I took the Olympus with me on a trip to Coventry and Stratford, I loaded it with a 24 exposure film, but finished this off quite quickly, so loaded it with another.
This is the tomb of the Bishop who oversaw the inception of Coventry Cathedral, I set the focus to the minimum distance, and tried to guess the parallax correction needed to stop the towers overlapping.

Week 121 - Olympus Trip 35

Olympus Trip 35, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

The Olympus trip was in production from 1967 to 1984, and over 10 million were sold. In the UK at least, they were made famous by the David Bailey advertising campaign. They are very common, and often very cheap, some work, some don't, I have three (costing between £1 and £3 each) and two of these work. I have never actually used one before, so I'm looking forward to taking it on a trip to Stratford-on-Avon.

photo from week 120 - Ricoh Auto 66

cricket, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

The Sunday afternoon cricket match in the park is a quintessentially British sight, I have no interest in cricket, but am quite keen on little white flags, so this was an ideal subject.

photo from week 120 - Ricoh Auto 66

reflected self-portrait with Ricoh Auto 66 camera and lensless spectacles, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

A combination of close focus, and low light, leading to wide aperture and slow shutter speed has taken the edge of the sharpness of this one.

photo from week 120 - Ricoh Auto 66

two towers, a photo by pho-Tony on Flickr.

I went for a walk with the camera, and on my way found this Eiffel Tower model in a charity shop, so I placed it in the landscape in one of the local parks. The plane of focus is a bit off, the grass behind the tower is sharp, but the tower itself was a little too close to the camera.