Time-travel back to 1988...what were you using?--B&W

StoneNYC · Aug 7, 2013

Heh, in 1988 I was 6, I was using a 110 "spy" camera I got at the arcade with my tickets from skeet ball shooting, with Kodak 110 color film, no idea what type...

And now you feel old and I feel silly I don't have a better story... Didn't get my Canon AE-1 SLR till I was 12, the fall of 1994

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tokam · Aug 7, 2013

Hah, I was using a Canon A-1 bought new in 1984 and a T90 purchased in 1987. Still using both of them along with an AE-1, F1-N and an EF.
Black and white film in those days was Tri-X, FP4 and the comparatively new fangled TMax films. All bought in bulk and reloaded.
Not much has changed film wise since then. Loads more genuine FD lenses after selling off some third party gear.

HamSammich · Jan 1, 2014

1) Pentax 6x7
2) Agfapan 100
3) Rodinal
4) Oriental Seagull toned lightly in selenium

No experimenting with a million different films/papers/developers. I settled on that combo, or the same in 35mm, and never changed. That is, not until numbers 2 and 4 went away for good. Everything I do today, digitally, aspires to that look and that simplicity of technique.

Wallendo · Jan 1, 2014

Yashica MG-1
Kodacolor (I shot Kodachrome and Ektachrome until 1982)

Marc Akemann · Jan 2, 2014

1. Minolta X-700
2. Kodachrome
3. -
4. -

fotch · Jan 2, 2014

(1) Nikon F3
(2) Kodak PlusX & Kodachrome
(3) Kodak Kodabromide
(4) Beseler 45 with color head & Beseler 23c XL w color head

Canuck · Jan 2, 2014

Hmmm, 1988

1. Olympus OM-1
2. Lots of PAN-F and HP5, Fujicolor 100
3. Agfa Brovira and Ilford Warmtone
4. Omega Chromega D3

aoresteen · Jan 2, 2014

Hasselblad 200FC/M, Leica M3, Olympus OM1

Lots of HP-5 120/35mm and 35mm Kodachrome

Ilford Mulitgrade III

Beseler 23C

Regular Rod · Jan 2, 2014

skystrick said:
Just curious to see how much the last 25 years has changed the field of photography...

Just for fun!

Okay, back in 1988, what were you using for:
(1) Top most-used camera?
(2) Top most-used film?
(3) Top most-used paper?
(4) B&W enlarger, color enlarger, other printing equipment?

If 1988's too specific, we can just say "the 1980s".

1) Kodak Model B 6½ x 8½ with 7" Wray Lens
2) ILFORD FP4
3) AGFA Record Rapid with own mix of Amidol, usually toned afterwards with Kodak Selenium toner
4) De Vere enlarger but mostly used as a light source for contact printing whole plate sized negatives in a Paterson Contact Printing Frame

RR

jernejk · Jan 2, 2014

1. Grandfather's (later mom's) Prakica MTL 5. Great camera!
2. I frankly don't know. I only remember ORWO and Efke brands (yaay for growing up in a socialistic country). I have no idea what color film we used.

hacked - sepiareverb · Jan 2, 2014

Pentax LX with the 24~50 zoom outdoors, and primes in the clubs: a 20, a 35 a 55 and a 200. A completely stripped down graflex with a Xenar 135 I still have.
Plus-X outside, Trix-X inside.
Kodak Polyfiber and Oriental Seagull G (those blue boxes!)
Printed with a Beseler 45 with an Aristo coldlight. Proofsheets on Azo in an old Airforce Printer.

That darkroom was quite something, in a friends basement on East 7th between C & D, $100 a month that we split. A great big sink we made of fiberglassed plywood at the cost of many brain cells. Had a small patch of ground out the back door where I grew Irises. That darkroom was still intact, tho out of use till Sandy spit 5 feet of water in there.

removed account4 · Jan 2, 2014

in 1988
i was shooting a lot of portraits of strangers .. and some assignment work
yashica 124G + K1000 ( the next year was a speed graphic + tri x )
tmx/tmy + sprint film developer
everything printed on grade 3 -4 seagull (blue box ) + sprint paper developer
i was also coating glass plates with liquid light, and using sprint developer to process them

tokam · Jan 2, 2014

1. Canon T90
2. TMax 400 in TMax developer and FP4 in ID11 / D76
3. Agfa Brovira (or whatever Agfa's single graded RC paper was at that time.
4. A very cheap Dia enlarger which I bought in 1973 whilst in high school. At least I upgraded the enlarger lens from a non-descript Soligor to an El Nikkor 50mm f4

Hal Reiser · Jan 2, 2014

Hasselblad 500CM bought in 1973 by my dad who later gave it to me. I am still shooting with the same camera.

Verichrome Pan souped in D-76 1:1
Tri-X souped the same.

Axle · Jan 2, 2014

1988...I was five. I was using a random 35mm point and shoot with whatever film my parents loaded, probably a Kodak Gold or similar.

Thomas.Goehler · Jan 2, 2014

(1)Canon AE-1program (still with me and still works fine)
(2) Fuji HR 100
(3) If I did print back then, it was on Ilford paper
(4)I had no lab of my own then, used some friend's equipment but I do not recall what make it was.

cmacd123 · Jan 2, 2014

1) pentax MX
2 ) Eastman colour negative
3 & 4 ) sent way to be made into Eastman colour slides

winger · Jan 2, 2014

In 1988, I was in college (Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA). I was "borrowing" my dad's Pentax H1a and shooting mostly Tri-X. That year I wasn't taking any photo classes (bio major) and I don't think I shot that much. I didn't do much color until grad school (fall '90 - spring '92) and with a Minolta X370 then.

VaryaV · Jan 2, 2014

K1000 (my dad gave me) and Ektachrome. First year in college for me too. I was only 'utility' shooting back then to document my art portfolio. Little did I know I would fall in love with the thing...

My dad did all my slide processing for me, I'll never forget, he had a follow-along tape recording to guide him through processing, it was kinda funny to hear him humming along to it. I still have the K1000.

VaryaV · Jan 2, 2014

Axle said:
1988...I was five. I was using a random 35mm point and shoot with whatever film my parents loaded, probably a Kodak Gold or similar.

Priceless!

StoneNYC · Jan 2, 2014

I lied, I realized I was using my fisher-price 110 camera at the time.

Black Dog · Jan 2, 2014

1988....jumpers for goalposts hmmmm. I was using my parents' pentax MX [a lovely camera, must buy another one] loaded with Kodachrome, Fujichrome 50 or Gold/Fujicolour for colour or HP5/XP1 for black and white. Developer wise I was probably using Paterson, and printing on MG 3 with an old Meopta enlarger. I still have some of my tanks etc from then!

smithdoor · Jan 2, 2014

Using my Crown Graphic and just got a new Pear River S4 Just put film for the first in the Pear River on Saturday DEC 28 2013. I got an order from FreeStyle on Sat.
It is just like getting a new camera.

Dave

Kawaiithulhu · Jan 2, 2014

By 1988 I had dropped out of uni to work at a startup and was using an M3 mostly with Tri-X but messing about with tech-pan and Plus-X on occasion. I had my own darkroom and so I don't think that I ever ran color film through that Leica, or I can't recall having done so.

The Nikon F4 was new on the scene and I lusted after one, but did not live that dream until a year or two later and that's when I started mixing in color films.

Steve Smith · Jan 2, 2014

In December 1988 I started a new job. A couple of weeks ago marked 25 years with the same company. I thought I would stick with it for about five years.

In 1988 I only had one camera (imagine that!). A Nikon FG which my father gave to me. I still have it and it still works.

Steve.

Time-travel back to 1988...what were you using?--B&W

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