First Roll on a newly-acquired Olympus Trip 35

I got this Olympus Trip 35 from FB Marketplace. The Olympus Trip 35 is a legendary camera, but I was always skeptical of such claims on a zone-focusiong, selenium-metering, auto-exposure camera. My preliminary judgement was based on the technical aspects of the camera, from the perspective of a Sony user: A7IV, great optics. As a professional photographer whose imaging expectations are dictated by client needs and media influence, I have looked at cameras such as the Olympus Trip 35 and deemed it as not worth my time and efforts.

At the same time, I have been on a journey to deconstruct how I image my world, decoupling my "artistic/professional" way of seeing from my inner amateur photographer: full of wonder at the shapes and colours around me. The way I used to see my environment before digital, when my camera(s) was a  point-and-shoot, and shots were carefully considered due to limited resources (film use was expensive), and wait times for film processing were counted in days.

These are some photos from the first roll of Kodak Gold 200-36. Focusing was by estimating distances, metering was by trusting the selenium meter to get decent, average exposures, and composition involved using legs. At the same time, I tried, with little success, to forget the rules of composition.

I managed to end up with 34 keepers. I'm only showing the more visually-interesting images.

There is something magical, IMO, in how film renders images. I am unable to articulate how I feel about fil,. The closest I can come up with is "organic". It just feels so good.