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Great for: general beginner street student

Olympus's 1990s budget Trip compact — fixed-focus 31mm f/5.6, DX auto exposure, fill-in flash, AA power

The Olympus Trip 201 of 1996 was one of the budget 35mm compacts that carried the famous Trip name through the 1990s, long after the original Trip 35. Built in Malaysia with a black plastic body, it sat alongside the Trip 200 and Trip AF 21 at the cheap snapshot end of the range, trading on the badge's reputation for simple holiday photography.

It uses a fixed-focus 31mm f/5.6 lens with no zoom, protected by a sliding cover that also switches the camera on. Exposure is fully automatic via a built-in meter with film speed set by DX coding, and there are no manual aperture or shutter controls. The integral flash defaults to fill-in mode, adds red-eye reduction and can be switched off; a self-timer, tripod thread, motorised film advance and rewind complete the feature set. Power comes from two AA batteries which also drive the film transport.

This is snapshot photography at its most basic: point, press and let the camera do everything. The fixed-focus 31mm lens favours groups, street scenes and daylight shots from a couple of metres out, and the AA power and DX automation make it a friendly first film camera for students. It is not a tool for close-ups or low light without flash.

The Trip 201 needs battery power to fire at all, so test with fresh AAs that the flash charges and the motor advances film. Check the sliding lens cover switches the camera on reliably, the film door shuts light-tight and the frame-counter window is intact; these sell cheaply in large numbers, so favour clean tested examples.

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