Olympus: Trip AF 50

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One of the last few models in the long-running Trip Series of auto focus point-and-shoot cameras by Olympus, the Trip AF 50 was introduced in the 2002 as a more modern offering for holiday snap shooters who wanted “auto-focus everything” for fuss-free travel photography. Its 28mm wide-angle lens made this Trip model a fun and reliable travel companion for beautiful landscape, group, and party photos. A self-timer was eventually added to this camera, and was subsequently named Trip AF 51. The Trip AF 50 is a 35mm autofocus, lens-shutter camera that uses standard DX-coded film (ISO 100 to 400). The lens is an Olympus 28mm, f5.6, 3 elements in 3 groups and the shutter firers at 1/100 of a second. It also has a reverse Galilean-type viewfinder, built-in flash with Red-eye Reduction lamp (flash is automatically activated under low light conditions), flash ready LED, Quartz Date, focusing range of 2.6ft. (0.8m) to infinity, exposure counter, Auto film load (automatically advances to first frame when back cover is closed), Auto rewind, Mid roll rewind, film view window in the back cover, data back LCD screen (1/4” x ¾”), built in lens cover, ¼” 20 thread tripod mount, and it is powered by two 1.5V AA alkaline (LR6) batteries.