I just purchased a cable release for an old Olympus Trip35 film camera (c.1976) that my parents just gave me. Now, my questions is this, once i take a picture, if i press the release again without getting a new frame, does it re-open the camera’s shutter ? Thank you in advance, Tony
Thanks for your input.. what happened was i took a pic for close to 2 min and close the shutter, i pressed the cable release again and it felt like it was activating again. Since i'm new to film and specially using a cable release, i didn't know if that was possible. Tony
you would need a motor drive, I would think, to advance the camera mechanism ... but .. I am not real familiar with when the "safety mechanisms" came about in cameras ... I would think before the mid-seventies
on an old film camera of mine .. I would have to do the Vulcan-Nerve-Pinch (VNP*) in order to do a multiple exposure .. but in the old days this was not the case ... you could accidentally re-expose the same frame easily
(*VNP = tension the take-up spool to remove slack film .. while holding that taught with your pinky, reach under the body and depress the rewind button (which only disengaged the gears and allowed rewinding by crank) ... then, with that done, re-cock the shutter mechanism via the normal lever ............. a little film slippage would generally occur)
My old pentax p30t was all manual. I could only release once and had to manually advance the film. My suggestion to you is to play with it. If you can double expose .... well, I see possibilities for some seriously creative stuff if so...
Due to the cold weather and the lack of time lately i haven't been able to play as much as i would like to. i can't wait to see tha results once i finally develop that film. Will see. Thanks for your input as well. tony
The early cameras had two separate mechanisms. One to wind the film on and the other to cock the shutter. It was easy to do double exposures, intentionally or otherwise. The Trip 35 was more modern than that. It had the shutter mechanism linked to the winder to be I quote from the manual “Self-cocking to prevent double advances and double exposures”.
If I remember correctly the shutter button would slop up and down after a shot. When you wound the film on it cocked the shutter, which put tension on the shutter button.
I have a PDF copy of the manual. The quality isn’t great but if you would like a copy send me your e-mail address by pm.