C41
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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The Olympus Trip 100 is a budget-tier 35mm autofocus compact introduced around 1990, part of Olympus's effort to extend the celebrated Trip brand name into the mass-market automatic camera segment of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Where the original Trip 35 was a mechanically elegant selenium-metered camera aimed at the educated amateur, the Trip 100 is a straightforward plastic-body program-auto camera aimed at first-time 35mm buyers and point-and-shoot consumers who wanted a recognisable brand name at an accessible price.
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C41
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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Kodak Gold 200 is a daylight-balanced C-41 color negative film with warm color, moderate grain, and a classic consumer-film look.
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Kodak UltraMax 400 is a versatile consumer-grade ISO 400 daylight-balanced color negative film with T-grain emulsion, delivering warm Kodak colors, fine-for-speed grain (PGI 46), and wide exposure latitude. Currently in production and available globally as a single-roll and multi-pack.
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About this camera
A no-frills 1990 plastic autofocus compact carrying the Trip name into the fully automatic era.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm |
| Lens | ~35mm f/4.5 fixed |
| Years | ~1990 (discontinuation year unverified) |
| Shutter | ~1s - 1/250s, electronic leaf |
| Modes | Program only |
| Focus | Active infrared AF |
| Viewfinder | Optical direct |
| ISO range | ~100 - 3200 (DX coded) |
| Battery | 2x AA |
| Body | Polycarbonate |
The original Olympus Trip 35 (1967) built a loyal following through the 1970s on the strength of its selenium-powered all-mechanical simplicity and its association with a generation of casual film photographers in Europe, where Olympus marketed it aggressively. By the 1980s the Trip 35 had been discontinued (1984), and Olympus began applying the Trip name to a succession of quite different cameras - autofocus compacts, zoom cameras, and budget models - to trade on the brand equity the original had accumulated.
The Trip 100 arrived in 1990, a decade after the autofocus compact had become the dominant camera type in consumer retail. It competed in a crowded segment where Kodak, Fujifilm, Canon, and Nikon all offered similar specification plastic bodies at similar prices. The Trip name gave Olympus a marketing shorthand for "simple and reliable" that resonated with European buyers in particular. The camera was sold into markets where brand recognition mattered more than specification, and it performed that role.
The Trip 100 matters primarily as an artefact of brand strategy rather than optical excellence. It demonstrates the tension between the legacy of a genuinely celebrated camera (the Trip 35) and the commercial reality of a mass market that demanded fully automatic operation, built-in flash, and low price above all else. The Trip brand effectively split into two meanings around this era: the original mechanical camera continued to be sought after by enthusiasts, while the Trip 100 and its successors served a completely different buyer.
For collectors and historians of point-and-shoot cameras, the Trip 100 is a useful data point in the broader story of how Japanese camera brands managed their heritage through the transition from mechanical to electronic compacts. It is not a camera that commands attention for its image quality or design, but it sold in quantity and shows up frequently in charity shops and online markets at very low prices.
C41
Kodak ColorPlus 200 is an affordable, consumer-oriented daylight-balanced color negative film at ISO 200. Known for warm, slightly muted color rendition, fine grain, and wide exposure latitude, it is currently in production and widely available in Asia and select global markets.
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Kodak Tri-X 400 is a classic black-and-white film known for strong tonality, visible grain, and documentary character.
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