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 AF 50 is a 35mm autofocus compact released around 1988, positioned as an accessible, fully automatic point-and-shoot for the mass consumer market. It sits within the long line of cameras that Olympus marketed under the Trip brand name throughout the 1980s, carrying the name further into the autofocus era after the motor-drive-only Trip MD.
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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 late-1980s plastic AF compact carrying the Trip name into the autofocus era.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm (24x36mm) |
| Lens | ~35mm or 38mm fixed, AF |
| Shutter | Programmed electronic |
| Meter | TTL silicon cell |
| Exposure modes | Program (auto) |
| Viewfinder | Optical brightline |
| ISO range | DX-coded |
| Battery | 2x AA |
| Flash | Built-in, auto |
| Film advance | Motor (automatic) |
| Film rewind | Motor (automatic at end of roll) |
| Focus | Autofocus |
| Year | ~1988 |
The Trip name had been part of Olympus's consumer range since the Trip 35 launched in 1967. By the late 1980s the brand had become a family of loosely related consumer compacts sharing a name but not a design lineage. The Trip MD (1985) introduced motor drive to the Trip line; the Trip AF 50 followed with autofocus capability, aligning the product with the direction of the broader compact market where passive or active AF had become standard equipment even at the lower price points.
Olympus was simultaneously developing its more prestigious mju (Stylus) line during this period, which would come to define its compact camera identity in the 1990s. The Trip AF 50 belongs to the budget tier: functional automation at a price accessible to the widest possible consumer base, continuing the Trip brand's historical association with simplicity and ease of use.
The Trip AF 50 is not a significant camera by technical or cultural standards. Its significance is primarily as a record of how the Trip brand was sustained through successive product generations by attaching a recognisable name to mainstream consumer technology of each era. The original Trip 35 succeeded because of its mechanical quality and the specific capabilities of its selenium meter; the AF 50 succeeds or fails on the basis of its autofocus reliability and motor convenience.
For researchers of mass-market camera distribution in the late 1980s, the AF 50 illustrates the commoditisation of autofocus in consumer compacts and the marketing strategies used by Japanese manufacturers to maintain brand equity across major technology transitions.
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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