Time-travel back to 1988...what were you using?--Color

[skystrick]

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 color film?
(3) Top most-used paper?
(4) B&W enlarger w/ color pack, dichro color enlarger, or somethine else? - Bonus points if you can you remember the model!


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

 

[Muihlinn]

For 1988 this:

1) IIRC a 1959 nikon F
2) Kodachrome 64
3) Whatever the lab returned, or for BW, ilford/agfa/valca depending on offers
4) by then I just moved across countries and I bought a cheap & unknow secondhand enlarger which was slightly wobbly, at that time most were slides.

 

[chriscrawfordphoto]

I was 13 years old, shooting with the Olympus OM-G that my dad bought me for my 11th birthday. I had a 50mm f1.8 and a 28mm f2.8 lens, both Olympus Zuiko lenses. I had never used black and white film or done my own processing, that would have to wait till I took photography in high school a few years later. I shot Kodak's amateur color neg films. I think it was Kodacolor VR-G, usually in 100 speed. Got it processed by a local lab.

I don't have the camera anymore. It was broken in a car accident when I was 16. Totaled my car, too. Replaced the camera with an Olympus OM-4T

 

[BMbikerider]

That's 25 years back and I thought I was having problems with short term memory loss! The camera almost certainly a Nikon F or very similar but definitely a Nikon with prime lenses and possibly a Rollieflex 'T'. My enlarger was definitely a LPL7700 with a Nikkor lens for both formats (Still got it and only changed the bulb twice!) and the film would have been FP4/Tri X and for colour, Agfa slide. I didn't start C41 printing until about 1990.

 

[Steve Smith]

In 1988 I was 24 and had only one camera. A Nikon FG.


Steve.

 

[Tenoates]

I was using my Canon AE-1 that my dad gave me back in 1977 when I was 12.

 

[benjiboy]

In 1988 my wife and I sold our previous house and moved into our present one, I had 2 new Canon F1's, an A1 and a T90 and 2 mamiya C330F's, I sold the A1 recently and bought another new F1 body, I still have and use the same cameras. I used to shoot a lot of Agfa Portra 160 on those days and Agfa 50S and Ektachrome 64 slide film sadly all no longer with us.

 

[bdial]

A Nikon F3 which I still have
My "go to" film was Kodachrome
Color prints were on whatever the lab used, but my preference was Kodak.
No darkroom at the time.

 

[perkeleellinen]

Looking through the family archive I think my parents quit using B&W film around the mid '60s. I remember on holiday we used to give our 110 cartridges to this processing place on the high street that boasted a 30 minutes turnaround, so quick the prints were still tacky. Their machine was in the window and prints would pass by as they were drying on a conveyor - interesting to see all the family photos - then excitement would come as we spotted our own shots. Kodak, Fuji and the rest were too expensive so we always bought the shop brands of film.

 

[hoffy]

1988? My Brothers Olympus 35mm Point and Shoot, or my Plastic Kodak Brownie that took 110 film

The film? Back then it would have had to be Kodacolor Gold.

 

[selmslie]

1. Hasselblad 500 C/M
2. Kodachrome 64 and 25
3. Ilford Multigrade
4. Besseler 45 MXT w/dichro color head

 

[Helinophoto]

(1) Top most-used camera? Goko 100 compact crap (looked like this http://cdn2.sulitstatic.com/images/...2d65c0e10142f409b908baa335005efe541f44f48.jpg )
(2) Top most-used color film? No idea, the "store had it in 200 and 400" color negative, probably "Fuji film". ^^

(3) Top most-used paper? "Quality photo paper from the lab"
(4) B&W enlarger with color head? No..

Hey, i was 14

 

[Doug Smith]

1) Nikon F
2) Agfa color negative
3) Lab prints
4) n/a

 

[Ashutterbug]

OM-2 & Mat 124
Shooting Ektachrome 64, FP-4 and the last of my Panotomic X (this was a sad time).

 

[spacer]

My Mom's K1000.

I don't remember what film I used mostly, but I think she'd bought it at Duffy's in Clovis NM.
The camera disappeared at Disneyland a couple years later.

 

[Ap507b]

1. Nikon FA (I still have it)
2. Fujichrome 100ASA slide film.
3. Whatever the lab used.
4. Not applicable to me.

 

[lancekingphoto]

I was 16 years old and had just bought my first SLR: a Konica TC-X, that I bought for use in a high school photography class. That camera traveled around the world with me, and brought me many hours of happy shooting. I used whatever was readily available for film, mostly Kodak consumer films with a fair amount of black & white for good measure. I used to work at a drugstore, so I got a small discount on my film processing. I still have that camera today.

 

[mablo]

1988 is the year I bought a brand new Minolta 7000 kit. I shot whatever colour film I could find and had negs and prints made in the lab. I still have some of the prints and I think my brother still has the camera somewhere. I had no access to a darkroom at the time.

 

[jerrybro]

I was shooting a Minolta XD5 and Ektar 25 film.

 

[benjiboy]

I'm still using the same cameras as I did in 1988, I've only bought two since then a Canon EF body, and a new Canon F1 body, I don't like constantly changing cameras you can never operate them without thinking.

 

[wblynch]

I was shooting mostly my wife's generic Minolta 35mm Point and Shoot. It took OK pictures.

On occasion I would drag out my Olympus OM-1 but we were too active at that time to worry about photo gear.

Grab and go was the theme of the day.

I always bought Kodak color film at the drugstore/supermarket and got upset if my wife or daughters bought Fuji!

Looking back at the old negatives now, the Kodak actually did hold up better over time.

Cheap 1-hour mini-labs where popping up everywhere and their processing and prints have NOT held up over time. The stuff I sent out to Kodak labs for processing and prints is still beautiful even today. Especially the prints.

I sure wish we could get color lab prints on that same paper! The stuff was perfect - not like the sh** (er.. junk) of today.

 

[Wayne]

(1) Top most-used camera?

Busch Pressman D with 120 film back. My Wista 45sp didn't come until 1989.

(2) Top most-used color film?

Oh gosh-maybe Fujichrome 100? If they made that then? I also shot some Extrachrome. A few polaroids.

(3) Top most-used paper?

Oriental Seagull, Kodak Elite

(4) B&W enlarger w/ color pack, dichro color enlarger, or somethine else? - Bonus points if you can you remember the model!

Omega DII with cold light head with 162mm Raptar, IIRC

 

[Pinecreekboy]

Let's see in 1988 I didn't have a darkroom--I had one from 1973-1985. I would have been shooting Kodachrome in my F3HP using a 24mm f/2.8 or and 85mm f/2.0. Occasionally I would shoot Tri-X but it was killing me to not be able to process my own film.

 

[Chan Tran]

In 1988? At that time I only have a Minolta SR-t 101 with a 28mm a 50mm and a 70-210mm zoom. I bought the whole set for $45. I was broke at the time. Don't have any other equipment. I started to buy equipment in 1977 and my first camera was a Nikon F2AS and then I added the EM and the F3HP and then the Olympus XA. I got the Beseler 23CII with the dichroic head and use Kodak ektacolor paper and EP2 chemistry. I managed an 1 hr lab in 1983 so I do most of my processing there and only the enlargement at home. In 1984 my F2AS got stolen and I sold the Olympus XA to a co-worker who never paid me. I went broke in 1985 so I sold all of my equipment then. I used the Minolta SRT way until 2002 when I bought the Nikon F5 and then several others after that.

 

[Scandium]

In 1988 my primary color film was ECN 5247, ISO 100. I began transitioning to ECN 5297, ISO 250 that year. I used a Canon F-1n and a pair of FTbs.