What was your "kit" in 1975?
Dec 31, 2019 05:09:10 #
I had it then or shortly, after, and it was my most enjoyable camera...the Canon ftb with 50mm f1.8. I also had an 80-300mm zoom lens. It may have been a Vivitar.
Dec 31, 2019 05:11:05 #
wdross
Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado
wilsondl2 wrote:
Mine was a Minolta 101 with a 50mm f/1.4 (wow!), 28mm f/2.8 and 135mm f/28 both Vivatar. Yes I would like to forget the 400mm f/6.3 Spiratone. A lot of hard work to get a so-so picture. Don't want to forget the 2x extender. A Honeywell flash. B&W and closeup filters. A bag to keep it all in. What did you have? - Dave
An Olympus OM-1n with a 50mm f1.4. That was everything I had and nothing else at the time.
Dec 31, 2019 05:32:58 #
wilsondl2 wrote:
Mine was a Minolta 101 with a 50mm f/1.4 (wow!), 28mm f/2.8 and 135mm f/28 both Vivatar. Yes I would like to forget the 400mm f/6.3 Spiratone. A lot of hard work to get a so-so picture. Don't want to forget the 2x extender. A Honeywell flash. B&W and closeup filters. A bag to keep it all in. What did you have? - Dave
A Yashica "A" TLR
Dec 31, 2019 05:55:53 #
wilsondl2 wrote:
Mine was a Minolta 101 with a 50mm f/1.4 (wow!), 28mm f/2.8 and 135mm f/28 both Vivatar. Yes I would like to forget the 400mm f/6.3 Spiratone. A lot of hard work to get a so-so picture. Don't want to forget the 2x extender. A Honeywell flash. B&W and closeup filters. A bag to keep it all in. What did you have? - Dave
In 1975 I owned an Olympus OM1, Tokina 70 - 230mm (the standard then was 70 - 210mm), an Oly 50mm 1.8 and I believe a owned a Vivitar 283 flash (known as the Light Machine) - I certainly owned one in 1978 when I changed to an EM2. I developed my own B & W in those days but shot mainly in colour with Fuji 400.
Dec 31, 2019 06:12:40 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
wilsondl2 wrote:
Mine was a Minolta 101 with a 50mm f/1.4 (wow!), 28mm f/2.8 and 135mm f/28 both Vivatar. Yes I would like to forget the 400mm f/6.3 Spiratone. A lot of hard work to get a so-so picture. Don't want to forget the 2x extender. A Honeywell flash. B&W and closeup filters. A bag to keep it all in. What did you have? - Dave
In 1975 I was shooting for UPI (united press international) my kit was generally a Nikon F, Nikon 24mm f2.8 and a Nikon 200 f4. Luna pro light meter and rocket lens cleaner.
Dec 31, 2019 06:23:55 #
wilsondl2 wrote:
Mine was a Minolta 101 with a 50mm f/1.4 (wow!), 28mm f/2.8 and 135mm f/28 both Vivatar. Yes I would like to forget the 400mm f/6.3 Spiratone. A lot of hard work to get a so-so picture. Don't want to forget the 2x extender. A Honeywell flash. B&W and closeup filters. A bag to keep it all in. What did you have? - Dave
Canon TL-QL, Canon FL 50mm f/1.8, Canon FL 200mm f/3.5, leather bag, aluminum tripod, cable release, flash with pc cord connector. Camera and 50mm were purchased at a local camera store in Annapolis, MD in 1970, shortly after graduation from High School. The 200mm f/3.5 lens, bag, tripod and flash were purchased at Onward&Co, on Nathan Road in Hong Kong, in June of 1971, while I was enroute to Sunny Southeast Asia. That kit served me well into the '80s.
Last use that I recall was by my daughter in 2007, an analog photo class module related to her Georgia Tech industrial design degree.
Dec 31, 2019 06:25:22 #
cullumjt
Loc: Central Florida
Canon F-1, 50mm 1.4, vivitar 70-300, vivitar 281 flash; TLR Yashica-Mat, shortly later joined by Rapid-Omega 100 and Sunpak 611 for weddings.
Dec 31, 2019 06:42:50 #
Minolta srt-101, 50mm prime, and a vivitar zoom. I don't remember the details of the zoom.
I had a darkroom in my parents basement, set up for b&w.
I had a darkroom in my parents basement, set up for b&w.
Dec 31, 2019 06:46:21 #
I was at Art school, Pratt, in 1975. I had a Canon Ftb FD 50mm f/1.4, 28mm f2.8, 135mm f3.5 both Vivitar, and a Rollei 35. The Rollie was glued to my face from 1973 to 1982...I still have the Rollei and it works amazingly well. In my avatar I'm using the Rollei....
Dec 31, 2019 07:01:36 #
Dec 31, 2019 07:01:43 #
Pablo8
Loc: Nottingham UK.
GoofyNewfie wrote:
Was your 43-86 sharp?
Mine was pretty crappy.
Didn’t have it very long.
Mine was pretty crappy.
Didn’t have it very long.
Pin-cushion at one end and Barrell at the other. I kept my 55mm Micro. Super lens. I used Rolleiflex and Mamiya c330 for Press work. MPP 5 x 4 for special shots.
Dec 31, 2019 07:12:52 #
In 1975 I was a poor high school student saving to buy wheels and just coveting a new Nikon or Canon. My first kit was 1979 and it was a Fujica STX-1 with a 55mm 1.8. It wasn’t a Nikon or Canon but it’s what I could afford and it did everything I needed it to. I had some great times with that camera.
Dec 31, 2019 07:12:52 #
In 1975 I was a poor high school student saving to buy wheels and just coveting a new Nikon or Canon. My first kit was 1979 and it was a Fujica STX-1 with a 55mm 1.8. It wasn’t a Nikon or Canon but it’s what I could afford and it did everything I needed it to. I had some great times with that camera.
Dec 31, 2019 07:13:55 #
Dec 31, 2019 07:15:20 #
loperR
Loc: Medina ,Ohio
Minolta 102, 50mm f1.4 ,28mm, and 135mm all Minolta along with a Vivatar flash (I think it was an 282 ) . The 102 could do double exposures and had a hot hotshoe for flash.
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