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

Fritzenpapa · Sep 5, 2015

An old thread, that disserves to be revived...
In 1988, I was 18 and 19 years old, in 12th and 13th grade of school.
I used a Canon T70 and AL - 1. The lenses where Canon FD 75-200mm; 50mm and 28mm and, for bird photography, Novoflex 400 and 600mm rapid focus lenses. Being still at school and thus not able to earn lots of money, I used film-wise whatever I could afford. From my aunt in East Germany, I got ORWO NP22. For animal photography, my big passion in that time and still today, I used Ektachrome 200 for bird photography in the rainy North of Europe. For Macro photography, I used Kodachrome 64- The latter is the reason, why I still can enjoy 1988-slides in vivid colours, just as I would have taken them yesterday. Kodak - why did you discontinue this unique film with "eternal" colours??

Xmas · Sep 5, 2015

Various Ms
Kchrome 25
Cibachrome
FSU suitcase enlarger & small portable projector

Alan9940 · Sep 5, 2015

1. Deardorff 8x10
2. Tri-X
3. Zone VI
4. Beseler 45MX for contact printing.

ozphoto · Sep 6, 2015

Yikes, that was a while ago!!

(1) I used to shoot a truckload of both B/W & colour, hence I carried 2 - Canon A1 and an Old F1 both with motordrives.
(2) B/W - Agfapan 100 or 400, colour Agfachrome 50 or Agfacolor 100/400
(3) B/W - Agfa Brovira, colour prints went to the lab for Cibachrome printing
(4) My first enlarger was an LPL66, which came with a downright nasty "Cherry" brand lens (stop down to F8 to get a decent image), which was replaced in 4 weeks by a superb Rodenstock 50mm f2.8, which I still have to this day. It's "awesome"!!

Sadly, I no longer have the camera kit, work had me having to go to the dark side, so I traded it in for EF gear. Today only one 35mm film body - an original EOS-1.

aRolleiBrujo · Sep 6, 2015

About three years prior to that, I made my sisters buy me a red throw away 35mm, at the local Thrifty's, and I loved that camera to death! I had my pet, my neighbor crush, some other random junk and my best one that my dad took of me, under BIGFOOT, the monster truck! I held on to them for years up until 18 when I left the nest. they stayed behind with my parents, and later years passed by, and my father passed, I flashed backed and remember my hidden treasure in my moms attic!
I went back and grabbed the laundry basket that sat there for nearly twenty years! I dug around my collections of baseball cards, Garbage Pail Kids 1st series, circa 1985, or 86? And my full set of Batman 1989 collector cards, and sadly, none of my photo's were found!! Gone, all gone! My pet dog Bubba, my pet bunny Snowball, my "girlfriend", and most important, my moment of my dad!
Those photo's and their content, has been forever etched in my mind, and I plainly see them, as if they were right here, right now! 1985 is gone, and being ten is too, but, the memories will forever be here, until I pass!

RalphLambrecht · Sep 6, 2015

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".

Nikon6006,color film and a DurstM805,still have all of it

BradS · Sep 6, 2015

in 1988, I had just started grad school. I owned only one camera and two lenses. I used:

Camera: Pentax KX,
Lenses: 50mm f/1.8 and 135mm f/2.5 SMC Pentax
film: Kodacolor Gold 100 and 400

Peltigera · Sep 6, 2015

1988 I had not long started my plant nursery and was working 15+ hours a day 7 days a week. Photography didn't happen for several years.

juan · Sep 6, 2015

1988
Omega 4x5 View Camera with Rodenstock 210/400mm convertible lense
Tri-X Professional
HC-110 developer
Zone VI Brilliant and Oriental Seagull papers developed in Zone VI developer

Sirius Glass · Sep 6, 2015

(1) Top most-used camera? Minolta, probably an X-700
(2) Top most-used film? Kodak Gold 200 or 400
(3) Top most-used paper? Processed and printed at Costco
(4) B&W enlarger, color enlarger, other printing equipment? Processed and printed at Costco

John Bragg · Sep 7, 2015

Olympus OM1n loaded with Agfa APX100 developed usually in Rodinal or Perceptol and printed on Ilford Multigrade ii with a cheapo Jobo enlarger. The Fuji 35mm enlarging lens was actually quite good and I still have it somewhere.

Ricardo Miranda · Sep 7, 2015

Petri FT with 55mm. 28mm, 85-210mm and a 400mm.
Various Fuji, Konica, Kodak C41 films.
Various 135, 110 and 126 P&S cameras.

nosmok · Sep 8, 2015

I had an old Zeiss Contina of my grand-dad's that had interchangeable Pantar lenses. Bought a Contaflex Prima that used the same glass. 48mm, 30mm and 75mm lenses, the Contina had a great addon VF that I use now for my Zarya.

For MF it was a Graflex RB 6x9 with a couple of rollbacks I modified for the Graflex back (had a machinist friend knock a groove where the inner ridge was.

Shot TriX and Tmax, didn't soup it myself, except one roll once.

Still have the cameras, don't shoot the Contaflex anymore but that viewfinder was SWEET. Have reprinted some of the negs and they are pretty damn good detail-wise. Those Pantars are real sleepers among vintage consumer lenses, just as the Kodak Anastigmat was for MF.

TenSpeed · Sep 8, 2015

i was just born

Kevin Harding · Sep 8, 2015

TenSpeed said:
i was just born

As was I. So I believe "I" (my parentals) were using a Pentax 35mm SLR.

Ricardo Miranda · Sep 8, 2015

RalphLambrecht said:
Nikon6006,color film and a DurstM805,still have all of it

Dear Ralph

Would you like to revise your statement?
Aren't you confusing 1998 with 1988?
The Nikon N6006 (American brand for what was in the rest of the world the F-601) was introduced in 1991. How come you had one 3 years earlier?

BAC1967 · Sep 8, 2015

I was a poor starving college student so I wasn't shooting a lot of film. Whatever I shot was most likely done on a Chinon SLR using Kodak Gold.

pdeeh · Sep 8, 2015

No idea, really. It's a longgg time ago for me ...

Might have had a p30t ? and/or a muj?

Probably colour negative film, maybe Kodak maybe Fuji, could just as easily have been bonusprint though.

Or maybe I was in one of my non-camera hiatuses?

It's all a bit of a blur tbh

Ko.Fe. · Sep 8, 2015

1988, around. Same FED-2 as of now. No BW at all.
All with DDR ORWO slide.

asterix · Sep 8, 2015

(1) Canon F-1N
(2) Ilford FP4
(3) Ilford Multigrade
(4) Durst, Fujimoto, Jobo CPE2

Sirius Glass · Sep 8, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
(1) Top most-used camera? Minolta, probably an X-700
(2) Top most-used film? Kodak Gold 200 or 400
(3) Top most-used paper? Processed and printed at Costco
(4) B&W enlarger, color enlarger, other printing equipment? Processed and printed at Costco

I also used a Minolta 28 strobe.

OptiKen · Sep 8, 2015

Nikon EM with assorted lenses
Kodacolor 200 & Kodachrome 64
Lab did my developing back then

Theo Sulphate · Sep 8, 2015

In 1988 I was using:

- Pentax SP500 w/ 55mm f/2, bought new in 1971
- Olympus XA2 as backup to the Pentax for a trip to Norway in 1981
- Leica M3 DS ST PV, w/ 50mm f/2 collapsible Summicron; bought in 1988 for $1100
- Nikon F3/T w/50mm f/1.4 bought new in 1988; my first Nikon

Film was undoubtedly Kodacolor of some form

Enlarger and paper were still in boxes from my move out of California in 1978. They're still in the same boxes...

DannL. · Sep 9, 2015

By 1988 I had been on my break from photography for about 5 years already. It lasted for an additional 17 years beyond that. Now I think I'm ready to go on another. I wonder if Apug will be here when I return.

Sirius Glass · Sep 9, 2015

TenSpeed said:
i was just born

That is not an excuse. Become older!

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

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