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


oops
speed graphic was same year
graphic view II a few years later
 
(1) Top most-used camera -- Gowland 4x5 PocketView w/ Caltar IIN 150/5.6
(2) Top most-used film -- TMax100
(3) Top most-used paper -- Agfa Portriga 111 and Ilford Gallery -- both grade 3 usually.
(4) B&W enlarger -- Omega D5XL

Primarily printing 4x5 negatives from my 5-month solo bike tour of New Zealand (1986/87), but occasional new negs from the local redwoods.
 
For me, I was 7 and using my dad's Canon T70, using kodak film. I was nagging both my parents to let me turn my bedroom into a darkroom...

I didn't get my own darkroom 'til I was 28!!
 
I dont think I got to play with a camera at the age of 3
 
I was a senior in high school in 88 and actually shot some black and white portraits/candids at my church youth group. Still have them. I was using my mom's Minolta X-370 loaded with, IIRC, TMY. It was mail off processing and prints. I did not begin my own wet process until 2006, nearly 20 years later.
 
I remember 1988 very well. Linda, Loni, Wendy, Ginny...ooops. Camera: Nikon N2002; film Tri-X; paper: Polycontrast RC; enlarger: Omega B-22XL. I got rid of the enlarger in the 1990s and recently bought another one. I still have the Nikon, as well as my Nikon F which I dropped on the floor in 1974 and need to get repaired. I wonder what happened to Wendy....
 
Nikon FM-2 w/20 f3.5;35 f1.4;105f25;200 f4

Fuji G617;FujiGSW690;FujiGw690

Kodachrome 64 (35mm)
Fujichrome 50 (120,220)

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Ah... 1988, the early undergrad years... (sigh)
Canon AT-1 w/ FD 28/2.8, 50/1.4, and 100/2.8, just switching from the Ilford film range (Pan F, FP4, HP5) to Agfa (APX 25, 100, 400), mostly in Rodinal or Neofin blue/red. Printing on Ilford Multigrade PE paper...

PS: Just couldn't afford Kodak products back then due to an overly strong Dollar.
 
In 1988 I used my old Hasselblad from 1963, and an Nikon F2. My BW films were Plus-X and Tri-x, developed in D76, and I usually printed on Emaks K888 or Ilfobrom Galerie with a Durst M605.
My color films were Ektachrome 64, 200, 400 and Ept 160 tungsten for 120, later also Fujichrome. The Nikon was mostly used for black and white, but occationally I was using Kodachrome 64.
Carl

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I was 17, not into photography, pouring lead soldiers and painting them. Playing war games. It took me another 9 years before I started photographing.
 
1988 was the year I got my MFA.

Rollei 3000 system
Rollei SLX system & TLR
T-max film 120 & 35mm

Minolta Mod III enlarger

Uniroller base & "Thermos" type Drum with metal reels with T-max developer for film processing
 
Wasn't doing all that much photographically in '88. Mainly playing around with my Mamiya 645, a Contax 137 and a Fuji GS 645. No darkroom then, using some custom labs. Was more focused on raising two nice kids and a new marriage. Still have the nice kids, a great marriage, a darkroom and a lot more cameras & stuff!
 
In '88 I was shooting mostly a Minolta X-700 in an underwater housing, and shooting Fuji Velvia and Kodachrome.

I now mostly shoot LF and MF, and mostly B&W, but am starting to play again with colour transparancy films.
 
I was 13 and using a Pentax S3. Not mine, and I could only afford a point and shoot which just did not do it for me, which kept me away from photography till 2003 when I bought a Zenit 212k

I now own that very Pentax, after 25 years of disuse I got it fully rebuilt (new shutter even) and am using it currently. Nothing like the feel of a proper camera in perfect condition, every control is silky smooth!
 
My third book was published in 1988.
During that year I was using Nikon FM2's,Fuji GSW690 and GW690, and a Fuji G617 Panorama.
Fuji 50 120/220 and briefly Kodachrome 64 120 / 35mm

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At this time I was shooting my AE1-Program and T90 cameras. The AE1-P is still there and working fine, after a CLA and "de-squeaking", the T90 is no more than a paper weight as the shutter is stuck...
 

In the early 80's I used a brand spankin new Mamiya 645 complete with an array of lenses and accessories. I used Panatomic-X exclusively. The paper I used was Oriental Seagull grades 2&3. I printed using an Omega B600 enlarger fitted with a cold light head from Fred Picker made by Aristo. I used a 75mm Nikkor Lens.

I was younger then.
 

I stopped from about 87 to 98 but in 87
Leica M4
HP4 & Kchrome 25
Cibachrome & Bromesko
FSU suitcase mono (Bromesko & ciba), 8x10 tube, mono and colour step wedges
 
irvd2x said:
My third book was published in 1988.
During that year I was using Nikon FM2's,Fuji GSW690 and GW690, and a Fuji G617 Panorama.
Fuji 50 120/220 and briefly Kodachrome 64 120 / 35mm

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What was your book about?
 
For B&W, mostly Plus-X 35mm, probably 50% of all film, balance color print & slide film in 35mm, some roll film, sheet film, all in B&W. In sheet film, mostly Agfa.
 
(1) Top most-used camera?
Pentax Spotmatic F (black body)

(2) Top most-used film?
Kodak TMax 400 and 3200 (just introduced) because I needed the speed. I was the highschool yearbook photographer/photo editor, so I was shooting handheld candids inside the school.

(3) Top most-used paper?
Left-over paper of unknown origin in the paper safes of the highschool darkroom, which was a hidden treasure accessed through a back hallway in the science lab.

(4) B&W enlarger, color enlarger, other printing equipment?
Not sure what that old highschool enlarger was. I think it might have been a Durst.
 
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