Olympus Trip AF50, Kodak Vision2 500T in Fomadon LQN

[iangreenhalgh1]

This is a very nice looking camera but it's bloody awful to use! Surprising Olympus put out something this bad. It is a 28mm fixed focus lens so the AF part is a lie - it even has the letters 'AF' in red on the front! Fixed aperture and single shutter speed so it's a toy camera really.

All this could be forgiven if the lens was any good. It isn't, very soft, low in contrast and loads of barrel distortion, just crap.

Worst of all, the camera doesn't space the frames correctly, the first frames are heavily overlapped and the spacing slowly gets greater so by the end of the roll, there is a cm between the last two frames. This means the middle of the roll and the end of the roll are okay, but the first third of the roll is useless as the frames are overlapped.

Worst camera I've ever used, by far.


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[Attila]

First forest pictures did save series.

I confirm this my camera was crap too, did work well but took crap images.

[iangreenhalgh1]

I like the forest pics, I only included the others to illustrate what a crappy camera this is.

The softness, distortion and lack of contrast are all bad.

One good thing about using this camera - it makes me appreciate the good ones much more, now I've seen what a bad one is like

[skida]

It is a travesty that Olympus called the AF50 a Trip! The original Trip, with the light meter wrapped around the lens was great.

[iangreenhalgh1]

Aye, that original Trip was great, but they used the name for a lot of cheap plastic cameras and spoilt it, sadly.