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OLYMPUS
TRIP 35 A TRULY CLASSIC FILM CAMERA
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Why the Trip 35 could be a camera for the preppers
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Over Ten Million Sold
1979 Hit Songs to Space Exploration What could the camera capture during 1979?
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Why the Trip 35 Could be a Camera for the Preppers
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f we are unfortunately to be but through a nuclear attack and we survive, the Olympus Trip 35 and other nonelectric cameras is what you need to document your survival in the nuclear wasteland. The reason for this, during a nuclear blast there will be an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP). While most EMP research and testing is still highly classified, an EMP will kill digital cameras, computers and any electrical items that operate with transistors or ICs.
Since the Trip 35 features no active components, all the digital cameras will be made useless, as long you got film and the chemicals to develop the film you and your Trip 35 will be able to document your survival and all the mutant beast that roam around the nuclear wasteland or be able to trade the camera for much needed supplies.
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roduced from 1967 to 1984, the Olympus Trip 35 became an extremely popular camera during its time.
The Trip 35 was an amazingly simple camera to use, you did not need a
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degree in photography or understand how to perfectly exposure a shot.
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The camera is fully automatic, the camera features a light metre and a programmed automatic exposure system which chooses the F/stop and the shutter speed, the only thing you need to do is select the right film speed and the focus distance. During its time, the Trip 35 was one of the world’s most advanced cameras and it was also an affordable camera to purchase, even today you can easily pick up
an Olympus Trip 35 ranging from £35 to around £80. Even today the Trip 35 is recommended as a first camera for getting into film photography although this could start a buying spree for film cameras as film photography can be very affordable and you can get the film developed easily or you could try and develop it yourself with a film developing starter kit, which costs around £50.
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Hit Songs to Space Exploration
What Could the Camera Capture During 1979?
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he Olympus Trip 35 was produced from 1967 to 1984, and a lot of things happened during its production time from hit songs, blockbusters, war to space travel.
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But we will be focusing on the year of the Trip 35 in my possession, which was produced in the year 1979. In the music world, Pink Floyd released their album “The Wall” on the 30th of November, the album included the hit song “Another Brick in the Wall”, the album sold 30
Some classic films were also released in 1979, these included 007 James Bond in Moonraker, Ridley Scott’s Sci-fi Horror Alien, and the rematch of the decade Rocky II, Rocky II only had a budget of $7 million put made $200.2 million at the box office.
million copies worldwide. But for the Village People they were facing legal issues, as the organisation YMCA sued the Village People for libel due to the song YMCA. 7
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Voyager 1
On the 5th of March 1979, NASA’s Voyager 1 makes its closest approach to the plant Jupiter to make observations about the moons, rings, radiation, and magnetic fields of the solar system’s largest planet. Even today Voyager 1 is still exploring space and is believed to be more than 14.4 billion miles from Earth. While in the UK, on January the 22nd Public Sector worker go strike, the largest strike in the UK since 1926. 8
The strike was organised by the four largest publicsector unions, The National Union of Public Employees, Confederation of Health Service Employees, General and Municipal Workers Union and Transport and General Worker’s Union brought the UK to a standstill during the harsh winter of 1979, the strike ended on February the 14th. This strike was the first of many that led to the election of Margaret Thatcher in May 1979, replacing James Callaghan’s Labour government.
Margaret Thatcher Winning 1979