Olympus Trip 35

{"overview":"The Olympus Trip 35 is a 35mm compact viewfinder camera introduced in 1967, aimed at travellers and casual users who wanted simple, reliable shooting without batteries. Because these are wholesale auction figures rather than retail asking prices, clean cosmetic examples with a working selenium cell tend to sell for more than tired bodies, and the rarer black variant is worth a useful premium when it appears. Buyers researching what an Olympus Trip 35 is worth today should expect tidy chrome examples to settle near the middle of that band.","buying_guide":"The most common fault is a dead or weak selenium meter, which locks the shutter into its red-flag warning and limits the camera to the manual flash apertures, so always test the meter against a known light source. Check the aperture blades for oil, the foam light seals around the back (these almost always need replacing), and the focus ring for smooth movement through its four zone settings.

Generated summary, 23 Apr 2026 — not checked by hand; prices on this page come from the sales, not from this text.