What is the cheapest used Olympus Trip 500 in the UK?

The cheapest used Olympus Trip 500 currently listed is £29.83 at eBay, based on 6 listings compared across 1 UK retailers.

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Used Olympus Trip 500 for Sale — From £30

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Great for: general travel beginner student

Olympus's simple Trip-branded compact — fixed-focus 35mm point-and-shoot, automatic exposure, 1984.

The Olympus Trip 500 was one of the later cameras to carry the Trip name, produced in the mid 1980s. It was a simple 35mm compact rather than a descendant of the original selenium-metered Trip 35, aimed at budget buyers who wanted an easy point-and-shoot camera, and it belongs to a broad family of inexpensive Trip-branded compacts from that era.

The Trip 500 is a fixed-lens 35mm compact built for simple operation, with a fixed-focus lens and automatic or simplified exposure. Later Trip-badged cameras of this type used a straightforward lens and minimal controls, and models of this kind typically ran on batteries for the meter and any electronic functions. Detailed shutter and aperture figures are not recorded here and are omitted rather than guessed.

In use the Trip 500 suits a photographer who wants a very simple, inexpensive camera for casual snapshots, travel and student use where ease of operation matters more than control. Its fixed focus and automatic exposure make it genuinely point-and-shoot, with little to adjust, which limits creative control but keeps the camera approachable for beginners.

When buying, confirm the shutter fires and the film advance and rewind work, and test any meter or electronic function on a fresh battery where required. Inspect the lens for haze and fungus, check the film-door light seals for perished foam, and look at the battery compartment for corrosion, all common problems on inexpensive compacts of this age.